Arthur de Capell Brooke

Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke, 2nd Baronet (born in Northamptonshire 22 June 1791 – 6 December 1858) was a British baronet and travel writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (1823) and co-establisher of the Raleigh Club (1827).

Remarks on Norway

He travelled in Northern Norway in 1820 and remarked the following regarding sea monsters

His informants were the county administrator of Finnmark, the clergymen Marcus Fredrik Steen of Karlsøy and Peter Vogelius Deinboll of Vadsø (1816-1824); as well as the bishop of Nordland Mathias Bonsak Krogh. Later, in 1823 he was a traveller between the villages of Alta and Torneå, describing how the locals had discovered coffee.

Books

He wrote and sketched in several publications from his expeditions:

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