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

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

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  823.8 DOYLE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  823.8 DOYLE    Check Shelf
Description 368 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Diaries.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Description and travel.
Whaling -- Arctic regions.
Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Diaries.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
Expeditions -- Arctic Regions -- Diaries.
Naval Medicine -- history -- Arctic Regions.
Physicians -- Great Britain -- Diaries.
History, 19th Century.
Added Author Lellenberg, Jon L., editor.
Stashower, Daniel, editor.
ISBN 9780226009056 cloth alkaline paper
022600905X cloth alkaline paper
9780226008868 (e-book)
022600886X (e-book)
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