1857-58 Whaling Voyage to Baffin Island (commanded by George Parker)

This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman’s Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858.

Ross, William Gillies. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.

1857-58 Whaling Voyage to Baffin Island (commanded by George Parker).
Arctic Reading: Canada

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The diaries of Margaret Penny, a captain’s wife, on a whaling voyage to Baffin Island. The diaries cover whaling near Baffin Island as well as its social life and customs.