From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93 /
Year: 1894
Type: book
Abstract: ANTARCTIC 7 was full of tubs and tinned-meat cans.If it had not been for these wretched tubs and things, I was told, I would have been welcome to stow away there, but there was absolutely nowhere else to put them.This was poor comfort, and I returned to Edinburgh in a very low state of mind, and for two or three days laboured at my frieze, avoided the face of man, and vainly tried to forget my Antarctic castle in the air.That was impossible.Bruce was camped in my quarters, and his preparations for the voyage made me think of the tumbling seas and glittering green bergs instead of dusty old memories of dead kings.Just three days before the Balaena sailed I went through to Dundee to see for the last time whether a berth could not be found on one of the ships.The master of the Balsena was not on board, so I went to the other ships to find if there was still a berth to be had before the mast.There was apparently plenty of room there, as it seemed that it was hard to get hands for the
Source: Longmans, Green and Co eBooks
Authors: W. G. Burn Murdoch, William S. Bruce
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W645685632