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MR. L. D. STAIR, evidently with great care, has converted the diary of Robert Ferguson into a narrative. It is certainly a readable book, but there is at times the slightest uneasiness in the reader's mind lest the editor may have been carried away by his theme: the feeling is probably unjustified. Matters of precise interest are (a) the accounts of the Eskimo and of Ferguson's success on his land journeys, short though they Were, due to adopting completely the native mode of life, long before Stefansson, and (b) the information regarding the Greenland whale, at that time the whale.
Arctic Harpooner:
a Voyage on the Schooner Abbie Bradford, 1878– 1879. By Robert Ferguson. Pp. xii + 216. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press ; London: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 9s. net.
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HAMILTON, J. Arctic Harpooner. Nature 142, 856 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142856a0
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