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All aboard,jordan! In 1880, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself aboard the whaling ship the Hope,moncler pas cher, sketching fauna of the polar regions and discovering his talent for storytelling.
The Sherlock Holmes author,doudoune moncler, then a 20-year-old medical student,jordan, was the ship’s surgeon during its voyage to the Arctic. His never-before-seen diary from the trip is now being published by the .
“Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure” contains full-color pictures of the diary,air jordan pas cher, Conan Doyle’s pen-and-ink sketches of Arctic life and a few fiction pieces that were based on the trip.
It was here where Conan Doyle “came of age at 80 degrees latitude,doudoune moncler homme,” as he writes in the diary. He describes in great detail the “murderous harvest” of seals and whales, revealing an intimate look at the heydays of the British whaling industry.
Of the millions of seals he saw,Moncler, Conan Doyle wrote: “They look a sort of cross between a lamb and a gigantic slug. On the 3rd, the bloody work began and has gone on ever since. The mothers are shot and the little ones have their brains knocked out with spiked clubs.”
He was often covered in frozen animal blood and had to thaw himself in front of the ship’s stove. It was Conan Doyle’s first trip out to sea,jordan pas cher, but he occasionally participated in the clubbing of seals and even fell into the icy waters a few times, almost freezing to death.
He wrote about his wonder upon seeing humpback whales, which weren’t killed because they had significantly less oil than other animals. His adventures eventually led to the Holmes story “The Adventure of Black Peter,” a ghost story set in the Arctic.
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(Photo: Conan Doyle Estate Ltd)