A Naturalist at the Poles: The Life Work and Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce…
A Naturalist at the Poles: The Life Work and Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce the Polar Explorer… With five chapters by W.G. Burn Murdoch.
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1923.
Octavo, with a frontispiece portrait, illustrations and three maps (two coloured and folding); a very good copy in the original cloth, with vignette on the upper board.
Dr. Bruce's experiences on the Scotia
Scarce first edition (Rosove's binding variant 'a'). Rudmose Brown's biography of his shipmate and fellow explorer 'contains a valuable account of the [Scotia] expedition's preliminaries and biographical sketches of the officers and expedition associates not given in The Voyage of the Scotia' (Rosove). The five chapters by Burn Murdoch include a good account of the Antarctic expedition of the Dundee Whaling Fleet of 1892-3, in the whaler 'Balaena" as well as of the more important Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in the Scotia.
Scarce first edition (Rosove's binding variant 'a'). Rudmose Brown's biography of his shipmate and fellow explorer 'contains a valuable account of the [Scotia] expedition's preliminaries and biographical sketches of the officers and expedition associates not given in The Voyage of the Scotia' (Rosove). The five chapters by Burn Murdoch include a good account of the Antarctic expedition of the Dundee Whaling Fleet of 1892-3, in the whaler 'Balaena" as well as of the more important Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in the Scotia.
Provenance: Private collection (Australia)
Renard, 202; Rosove, 51.A1.a; Spence 194.
Condition Report: One or two spots but very good.