At sea with the scientifics: The Challenger letters of Joseph Matkin
Rehbock, P.F. (Ed.) (1992). At sea with the scientifics: The Challenger letters of Joseph Matkin. University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu. xii, 415 pp.
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VLIZ: Personal and Institutional Histories PER.223 [104855]
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When HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth in 1872, a young assistant ship's steward, Joseph Matkin, was among the crew. Throughout the three-and-a-half-year voyage, Matkin maintained a journal from which he composed the many letters he sent home to his family in England. In his letters he commented on oceanographic operations, reported on shipboard events of special concern to the crew, and discussed at length the history, geography, and peoples of the many exotic and remote ports at which the ship called on its famous circumnavigation of the globe. |
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