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A voyage to Newfoundland /
In his translation of Thoulet's travelogue, Scott Jamieson remains faithful to the elegance and wit of the original. A Voyage to Newfoundland is full of intriguing detail about the landscape, local culture, origins of place names, flora, oceanography, and state of the French fishery. Several ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In his translation of Thoulet's travelogue, Scott Jamieson remains faithful to the elegance and wit of the original. A Voyage to Newfoundland is full of intriguing detail about the landscape, local culture, origins of place names, flora, oceanography, and state of the French fishery. Several chapters are devoted to the fisheries and controversies over their exploitation - including ominous signs of early failure of the inshore cod fishery. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773572683 0773572686 1282863347 9781282863347 9786612863349 661286334X |