Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic A dventure.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. Edited by Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
  • 1880 British Whaling Voyage to Iceland (Conan Doyle, Surgeon).
  • Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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A facsimile and transcript of a diary Conan Doyle kept on an Arctic whaling trip in 1880 as ship’s surgeon aboard the S.S. Hope. It includes a good bit about his reading during this six-month summer trip to Greenland. All quotations here are from the transcript.