Campe, Joachim Heinrich. – What did explorers read?

Polar Scenes, Exhibited in the Voyages of Heemskirk and Barenz on the Northern Regions, and in the Adventures of Four Russian Sailors at the Island of Spitzbergen.

Campe, Joachim Heinrich. Trans. from the German. New York: S. Wood, 1823?.

Arctic Reading: Russia

Preview

A children’s book with interesting early illustrations of Barents reading a map (opp. p. 77) and descriptions of Samoyards (88-92) and Laplanders (99-110) etc. Constant evocations to the benign will of Providence.