Bücher der Reihe Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Herald during the Years 1845-51 under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett, R.N., C.B. 2 Volume Set

Berthold Seemann (1825-71), a German-born botanist and traveller, describes in this two-volume work, published in 1853, the years he spent as naturalist on the British survey ship HMS Herald, which sailed up the west coast of America from Panama and made forays into the Arctic seas.