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Sale 624 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Oct 31, 2018
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DOORLY, Gerald Stokely, Captain (1880-1956). The Voyages of the "Morning." New York: E.P. Dutton, 1916.
8vo (200 x 127 mm). Folding map, 15 photographic plates. Publisher's decorated blue cloth. Provenance: Green Cottage Library (neat ink stamp on rear pastedown). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Doorly was third executive officer, under Captain William Colbeck, aboard the Morning and provides an eye-witness account of events during the relief voyages. The Morning found the Discovery held fast in the ice, in February 1903. After re-supplying, the ship went back to New Zealand, carrying an ill and angry Shackleton after his first year with Scott. Returning to the Antarctic in company with the Terra Nova in January 1904, she took part in the eventual release of the Discovery in February 1904. RARE. Rosove 96.A3.

