This pre-owned, hardback book with dust jacket and 192 pages is in excellent condition.
The text was edited by Dominick Harrod and published by Chatham Publishing.
The book recounts the remarkable career of a Victorian Sailor through the journals and letters of Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-1867)
Samuel Gurney Cresswell joined the Navy at 14, serving in the Far East against Malay pirates, after which he embarked on a famous four-year Arctic expedition during which he became one of the first men to navigate the long-sought North West Passage. Details of the next stages of his career are to be found in the book.