Cadet to Commodore

London: Cassell & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1925). Hardcover. Rubbing to spine. Some rubbing to boards. No signatures.; Secondary issue in brown cloth. xii, 308 pages + portrait frontispiece. Light brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black Royal Navy ensign illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. "I have written this book in the hope that it may be of some use to the youngster who is filled with the desire of 'going to sea." - from the Preface, page vii. Contents: Foreword by Viscount Inchcape; The Beginning : On the Worcester; Calcutta to Demerara; The Last Voyage of the Plassey; The Last Trip 'In Sail'; Introduction to the P. and O. Service; First Acquaintance with the Far East; The Jubilee Review; On the 'Ferry Line'; On the Australian Run; Loss of the Bokhara; Three Years in the Arctic Regions; Harmsworth, Peary, and the Windward; The Scott Antarctic Expedition; After the Antarctic Expedition; My First Command; On the Port Said - Brindisi Station; Some Travellers on the Isis; Indian and War Experience; Submarine and Trooping Adventures; The Last Two Years; Index. [References: Rosove 18 - "An autobiography, with two chapters devoted to the Discovery expedition (pp.125-61)."; Renard "Antarctica" 53] .