No Man's Land: a history of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the country

Sir William Martin Conway

The University press, 1906 - Spitsbergen Island (Norway) - 377 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER PAGE I Introductory: 1
• How Spitsbergen was discovered: 11
• Walrus hunting and tentative expeditions: 20
• The first hunting expedition to Spitsbergen: 33
• The beginning of the Spitsbergen whalefishery: 38
• The troubles in 1613 51 VII The events of 1614: 65
• The method of the Bay fishery: 82
• Troubles with the Dutch in 1617: 94
• Troubles at Spitsbergen in 1618 106 XI Progress of the whaling industry at Spitsbergen: 124
• The final settlement of the Spitsbergen fishery: 135
• The first wintering in Spitsbergen: 146
• The culmination of the Bay fishery: 165
• Smeerenburgs culmination 182 XVI The decline of English whaling 191 XVII Whalers adventures: 203
• Incidents of war and other events in Spitsbergen waters: 215
• Russian trappers in Spitsbergen: 233
• Tschitschagofs expeditions: 263
• National expeditions to Spitsbergen: 277
• List of the principal voyages to Spitsbergen recorded from 1847 to 1900 301 Bibliography of the history and geography of Spitsbergen: 305
• The cartography of Spitsbergen: 328
• Chronological list of maps of Spitsbergen 342 History of Spitsbergen nomenclature before the nineteenth century: 347
• Index: 369

Bibliographic information

• Title: No Man's Land: a history of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the country
• Author: Sir William Martin Conway
• Publisher: The University press, 1906
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jul 3, 2007
• Length: 377 pages
• Subjects: Spitsbergen Island (Norway); Svalbard (Norway)