WAR, ICE & PIRACY - The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor. The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gurney Cresswell by Cresswell, Samuel Gurney [Dominick Harrod, ed.]

Chatham Publishing, London, 2000. Cloth. Book Condition: Fine/Fine. First Edition. 6 x 9, 192 pages, --------------------------------- This work is the biography of Samuel Burney Cresswell, 1827 - 1867, who joined the Victorian Navy at 14, serving in the Far East against Malay pirates. He then embarked on a famous four-year Arctic expedition during which he became one of the first men to navigate the North West Passage. The book contains photographs, maps, footnotes, and index.