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.