Doorly Captain Gerald Stokely (1880 1956) The Voyages of the

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Doorly, Captain Gerald Stokely (1880-1956) The Voyages of the 'Morning.' Octavo, illustrated with sixteen leaves of plates (several bearing two images), two original Antarctic tunes by the author, and a folding map bound after the text; bound in full publisher's blue pictorial cloth featuring an illustration of an emperor penguin with its chick on the front board; slight sun fading to spine, headcap slightly abraded, generally good; contemporary dated ink owner's signature to ffep, 8 x 4 3/4 in. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. [printed in the U.K. at the Ballantyne Press by Spottiswoode], 1916.

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First American edition. The Morning sailed on a relief mission for Captain Scott's stranded vessel the Discovery while it was stuck in Antarctic ice in Hut Point, ten miles from open water. Captain Doorly's lively first-hand 1902-1904 account, with map, songs, photos, and illustrations paints the picture, including his encounters with wildlife, Scott, and Shackleton, and the Discovery's eventual liberation from the ice.