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CAPTAIN GERALD S. DOORLY
The Voyages of the 'Morning' London: Ballantyne Press for Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8° (20 x 13cm.). 22 plates, 2ll. sheet music, one folding map at end. Original blue pictorial cloth (light soiling to spine), modern slip-case.
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE COPY of one of the rarest of the generally published accounts of the Antarctic. Doorly was third executive officer, under Captain William Colbeck, aboard the Morning and provides an eye-witness account of events during the relief voyages. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice, in February 1903. After re-supplying she went back to New Zealand, returning to the Antarctic, in company with the Terra Nova, in January 1904 and took part in the eventual release of the Discovery in February 1904.
The Voyages of the 'Morning' London: Ballantyne Press for Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. 8° (20 x 13cm.). 22 plates, 2ll. sheet music, one folding map at end. Original blue pictorial cloth (light soiling to spine), modern slip-case.
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE COPY of one of the rarest of the generally published accounts of the Antarctic. Doorly was third executive officer, under Captain William Colbeck, aboard the Morning and provides an eye-witness account of events during the relief voyages. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice, in February 1903. After re-supplying she went back to New Zealand, returning to the Antarctic, in company with the Terra Nova, in January 1904 and took part in the eventual release of the Discovery in February 1904.