Doorly capt gerald s (3 resultados)

Melbourne, Bread and Cheese Club Pulication, 1943. Large 8vo. 18 + 14 (music) pp. Frontispiece. 1 illustration. Original wrapper. Wrappers a little worn./Songs written and composed in the Antarctic by shipboard members of the relief ship Morning in the course of Scott?s Discovery expedition (1901-4). Rosove 98. .…

Compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly on time Third Executive Officer, S.Y. Morning. First edition. 4to. Original printed grey wrappers. 18, [14]pp. Melbourne, Bread and Cheese Club,  A very good copy. The S.Y. Morning was one of two relief ships for Scott's Discovery Expedition. Rosove 98.A1.…

First edition. Folding map, 16 photographic plates & 4ll. music. Small 8vo. Original pale blue pictorial cloth gilt, very lightly rubbed. xx, 224pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., A particularly good copy of this rare book, the binding of which is very often badly faded and rubbed. Doorly joined the crew of the Morning as third officer following the intervention of Edward Evans with whom he had gone to sea as a cadet on the training ship Worcester. The Morning under the command of Capt. Colbeck, carried out the successful Relief Expedition to Scott's 1902-1904 Discovery Expedition. On their return Evans was encouraged by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to publish an account of the voyage, however having asked Doorly to join him in this venture other commitments prevented him from beginning the project, leaving Doorly to publish his own work some ten years later.…