Extracts from Reviews in Recommendation of this Work.
Reading edition
“Mr. Laing performed two Voyages to Greenland, in the successive years of 1806 and 1807, as Surgeon, under the elder Captain Scoresby; whose son acted, at that time, as chief mate. His narrative is written with neatness, simplicity, and taste; and comprises, in a very small compass, what information could be desired on the subject of which it treats.”
Edinburgh Review, No. LIX.
“Mr. Laing’s sensible and unpretending Narrative of a ’Voyage to Spitzbergen,’ forms an admirable contrast to the pompous and frothy quarto of Bernard O’Reilly, Esq.”
Quarterly Review, No. XXXVII.
“In the little Volume before us, we have an interesting addition made to the natural history of regions of which our knowledge is as yet, comparatively speaking, but imperfect. Mr. Laing has been evidently a diligent and acute observer, and communicates the fruits of his observation in a simple and perspicuous manner.”
Philosophical Magazine, Vol. LI. No. CCXXXVIII.