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.
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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The Maracop Deep
Doyle, Arthur Conan. (1929) in The Treasury of Science Fiction. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1954.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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p. 68: …I have not spoken of the object of this voyage because I have, for my own reasons, desired it to be secret. One of those reasons was that I feared to be forestalled. When scientific plans get about one may be served as Scott was served by Amundsen. Had Scott kept his counsel as I have done, it would be he and Amundsen who would have been the first at the South Pole. For my part, I have quite as important a destination as the South Pole, and so I have been silent. But now we are on the eve of our great adventure and no rival has time to steal my plans. To-morrow we start for our real goal.