Dangerous work

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Subjects: History, Travel, History, 19th Century, Diaries, Description and travel, Ship physicians, Expeditions, Physicians, Authors, biography, Naval Medicine, Whaling ships, Arctic regions, description and travel, Scottish Authors, Whaling, Doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930, New York Times reviewed, Hope (Ship : 1873)

Description: Conan Doyle's diary and log of his time served as a surgeon on a whaling ship in 1880. Annotated, and includes several incidental pieces derived from his experience, including the Sherlock Holmes story *The Adventure of the Black Peter*.