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'The Voyage of the Challenger' by Eric Linklater
The Voyage of the Challenger details the journey that began when the ship left Portsmouth in 1872, bound for Antarctica, and traveled over 68,000 nautical miles in a thousand days and carried a team of scientists led by Prof Wyville Thomson.
Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Published by John Murray Ltd. 1972
Hardcover with dust jacket. The dust jack has some tearing around the top edge, mainly at the back. The book is in good condition.