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Letters from high latitudes

Being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen / by Lord Dufferin.

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ID23558678
AuthorsFrederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin and Ava
Year1873
Publication date1873-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
PublisherJ. Murray, (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5962/bhl.title.2085
OpenAlexW2485257518
LanguageEN
Citations received3

publicity in a provincial serial, but in spite of my spirited impressario having prefaced his piracy by the assertion that " he had commissioned a British Lord at a handsome salary" "to discover the North Pole" and to furnish his Magazine with " an account of his adventures," confirmed as it was by such a transfiguration of the dates, tenses, and superscriptions in my narrative as might best colour this ingenious fictionthe speculation must have proved a financial failure, as no per centage on his profits has hitherto reached my hands.

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Citation span2009 - 2017 (9)
Highly citedNo

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