At Sea With the Scientifics

At Sea With the Scientifics

The Challenger Letters of Joseph Matkin

by Joseph Matkin, Philip F. Rehbock

415 pages· 1992· ISBN 9780824814243
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Matkin was a young assistant ship's steward on HMS Challenger when it sailed from Portsmith in 1872 for a three-and-a-half-year voyage of scientific exploration; he kept a journal, from which he wrote letters home. The letters, discovered in the early 1980s, provide an intimate look at life aboard;

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