Cruise of the 'Alert': Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters (1878-82)

xiii, 256 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles & decorations - nautical motif on front board, all edges gilt. Includes 16 full-page woodcut illustrations from photographs by F. North and sketches by the author. A firsthand account of four years at sea, written by a staff surgeon of the British Royal Navy. According to the preface, the text focuses on "points of interest in natural history which came under observation during the wanderings of a surveying ship".