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Author:

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930, author.

Title:

Dangerous work : diary of an Arctic adventure / Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

368 pages : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Doyle, Arthur Conan,--Sir,--1859-1930--Diaries.
Doyle, Arthur Conan,--Sir,--1859-1930--Travel--Arctic regions.
Arctic regions--Description and travel.
Whaling--Arctic regions.
Authors, Scottish--19th century--Diaries.

Other Authors:

Lellenberg, Jon L., editor.
Stashower, Daniel, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "I came of age at 80 degrees north latitude" -- Facsimile of Arthur Conan Doyle's diary of his voyage as a ship's surgeon aboard the Arctic whaler S.S. Hope, February 28-August 11, 1880 -- Annotated transcript of Arthur Conan Doyle's diary of his voyage -- "It was quite an ovation" : Conan Doyle revisits the Arctic -- Arthur Conan Doyle's Arctic writings. The glamour of the Arctic ; Life on a Greenland whaler ; The captain of the "Pole-Star" ; The adventure of Black Peter.

ISBN:

022600905X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226009056 (cloth : alkaline paper)

LCCN:

2012021908

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)