A VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC IN THE WHALER AURORA

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, London, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition. ASSOCIATION COPY. ix,11-223 pages, illustrated, frontispiece, 55 b/w plates. Original pictorial hardcover, previous owners bookplate (Henry Brocklehurst) on front pastedown, contents clean. Arctic Bibl. 10168. The author's narrative of an 1884 cruise out of Dundee, to Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, polar bear shooting, optical phenomena, Eskimos, Inuit, life as a whaler. Association Information:Henry Brocklehurst accompanied his brother Sir Philip, to the Arctic in 1912, and was to have taken charge of the dogs on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famous Endurance expedition but owing to the outbreak of war in 1914 was recalled to his unit. Henry was killed in active service, fighting with a Commando unit in Burma, Sunday, 28 June 1942, aged 54 years. Sir Philip was a member of Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica in 1907-09. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2404. .