First edition, first impression. x, 196pp. Black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original, illustrated dust jacket, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.
The narrative of a harpooner in the whale ship Charles W Morgan, whose four year journey in 1849-1853 took him from New Bedford in Massachusetts to the South Pacific, and around the world, at a time when whaling was a dangerous pursuit.
