An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty by John Barrow

An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty

John Barrow

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Sir John Barrow (1764 1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, i...

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