Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796: The Journal of Surgeon David Brown, Introduced and Edited by John Melville

Whaling Voyages Round the World in the Britannia and Speedy (Capt. Thomas Melvill) 1791-1796 presents the first publication of the remarkable journal of David Brown, surgeon aboard the whaling transports Britannia and Speedy during their global voyages under Captain Thomas Melvill. Long preserved in handwritten manuscript form in the State Library of New South Wales, Brown's account opens an important window into the world of the late eighteenth century and the early British Southern Whale ...