The Canary Islands: Their History, Natural History and Scenery
- Publisher : Gurney & Jackson
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 3 col + 43 b/w plates, 4 maps
Description:
An account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago. 1st edition.
Condition
8vo, orig. blue cloth, some rubbing, a little scuffing to joints and a few marks to covers, teg. Contents clean. Vg.
Provenance: Ownership signature, 'J.R. Stenhouse, R.R.S. Discovery, Oct, 1925'. Cdr Joseph Russell Stenhouse (1887-1941) was a Scottish seaman, Royal Navy Officer and Antarctic navigator, who commanded the expedition vessel Aurora during her 283-day drift in the ice while on service with the Ross Sea Party component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-17. He was captain of the R.S.S. Discovery on the its Oceanographic Expedition (1925-1927) to Southern Atlantic and Antarctic waters. The expedition's mission was to research whale stocks, the migration pattern of whales and provide a scientific basis for regulation of the whaling industry.