University of Chicago Press, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2012. University of Chicago Press ISBN 022600905X 9780226009056 [US]

ISBN10: 022600905X, ISBN13: 9780226009056, [publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL] Hardcover Hardcover. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life, taking a berth as ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the "Hope." The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, "came of age at 80 degrees north latitude." Conan Doyle's time in the Arctic provided powerful fuel for his growing ambitions as a writer. With a ghost story set in the Arctic wastes that he wrote shortly after his return, he established himself as a promising young writer. A subsequent magazine article laying out possible routes to the North Pole won him the respect of Arctic explorers. And he would call upon his shipboard experiences many times in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who was introduced in 1887's "A Study in Scarlet." Out of sight for more than a century was a diary that Conan Doyle kept while aboard the whaler. "Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure "makes this account available for the first time in a beautiful facsimile edition that reproduces Conan Doyle's notebook pages in his own ...
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University of Chicago Press, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2012. University of Chicago Press ISBN 022600905X 9780226009056 [US]