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A lost translation of Bellingshausen?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2010

Rip Bulkeley*
Affiliation:
38 Lonsdale Road, Oxford OX2 7EW (rip@igy50.net)

Abstract

Frank Debenham believed, on naval authority, that the first English translation of Bellingshausen's account of his 1819–1821 voyage was made during World War I (Debenham 1945: vii). He may have been misinformed.

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