The Arcturus Adventure

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Not Stated. An early edition of this prominent American marine biologist's exploratory mission to the Galapagos, with illustrated colour plates, maps and photographs. The fourth printing of the first edition of this work. With brightly coloured pictorial endpapers, illustrations from maps and photographs, and with eight full colour illustrated plates. Each colour plate retains original captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.An account of the New York Zoological society's first oceanographic expedition from William Beebe, an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. Beebe is best remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the society.Aboard the steam yacht 'Arcturus' in 1925, on his second Galapagos expedition, Beebe and his crew experienced great success dredging creatures from the sea off the coast of Saint Martin and Saba. Equipped with cages and tanks for live animals, chemicals and vials to preserve dead ones, and a darkroom for developing film and studying the bioluminescent animals they hoped to encounter, this work relays Beeb's discoveries on this important expedition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to spine head and tail, with a very light mark to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed