The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World after Sperm Whales

xix, [1], 301, [3] pp. 4to. Original black cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt titles and decorations. Color plates by Mead Schaeffer, map of Cachalot's course precedes text, illustrated endpapers. A travelogue based partially on the author's personal experience of ten years at sea. It was popular enough that Rudyard Kipling's correspondence includes mention of him reading it to his children, and Bullen's life and writing career has been compared to that of Joseph Conrad.