Scott Polar Research InstituteSPRI library catalogue
Search the catalogue
Browse recordsView a record
Please note: You are viewing the legacy database of the Scott Polar Research Institute Library catalogue. It is no longer being updated, so does not reliably reflect our current library holdings.
Please search for material in iDiscover for up-to-date information about the library collection.
Record #167482:
- #167482
Main publication details
MARC recordAmbassador to the penguins: a naturalist's year aboard a Yankee whaleship / Eleanor Mathews.
| Title: | Ambassador to the penguins: a naturalist's year aboard a Yankee whaleship / Eleanor Mathews. |
| Author(s): | Mathews, Eleanor. |
| Date: | 2003. |
| Publisher: | Boston, MA, USA: D.R. Godine |
| Abstract: | Robert Murphy was curator of birds and mammals at Brooklyn Museum of Natural History, and jumped at chance to sail on one of last whalers out of New Bedford in 1912. "Logbook for Grace" was account for his young wife on return; Mathews, his granddaughter, has supplemented logbook with background material and photographs. |
| Keywords: | 59 -- Zoology. 629.124.722 -- Whaling vessels: Daisy. 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1912 Murphy. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 639.245.1 : (*7)[1912 United States] |
| ISBN: | 1567922465 |
| SPRI record no.: | 167482 |
LDR 01264nam#a2200000#a#4500 001 SPRI-167482 005 20230927022832.0 007 ta 008 230927s2003####mauab##|#####|0||#0#eng#d 020 ## ‡a1567922465 035 ## ‡aSPRI-167482 040 ## ‡aUkCU-P‡beng‡eaacr 100 1# ‡aMathews, Eleanor. 245 10 ‡aAmbassador to the penguins :‡ba naturalist's year aboard a Yankee whaleship /‡cEleanor Mathews. 260 ## ‡aBoston, MA, USA :‡bD.R. Godine,‡c2003. 300 ## ‡a353 p. :‡bill., maps ;‡c23 cm. 520 3# ‡aRobert Murphy was curator of birds and mammals at Brooklyn Museum of Natural History, and jumped at chance to sail on one of last whalers out of New Bedford in 1912. "Logbook for Grace" was account for his young wife on return; Mathews, his granddaughter, has supplemented logbook with background material and photographs. 541 0# ‡cBA NAmerica;‡aCoutts‡d20040227‡eK0771.‡5UkCU-P 650 07 ‡a59 -- Zoology.‡2udc 650 07 ‡a629.124.722 -- Whaling vessels: Daisy.‡2udc 650 07 ‡a639.245.1 -- Whaling industry.‡2udc 650 07 ‡a91(08) -- Expeditions: 1912 Murphy.‡2udc 650 07 ‡aW -- Expeditions and exploration.‡2local 651 #7 ‡a(*7) -- Antarctic regions.‡2udc 852 7# ‡2camdept‡bSCO‡cSPRI-SHF‡h639.245.1 : (*7)[1912 United States]‡9Create 1 item record‡0Migrate 916 ## ‡a130420 -- 2004/04/22 917 ## ‡aUnenhanced record from Muscat, imported 2019 948 3# ‡a20230927