Albert B. Armitage — Cadet to Commodore

London, Cassell & Company, Ltd. 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Albert B. Armitage's account of his time spent in the Merchant Navy during the early twentieth century. The first edition of the work.In the original blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece.A work by Albert B. Armitage, a polar explorer and naval officer. He was second-in-command of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land, and aided with the rescue of Fridtjof Nansen along with his team in 1895.He was also the navigator and second-in-command to Robert Falcon Scott during the Discovery expedition to Antarctica, a trip shared with Ernest Shackleton. He later famously fell out with Scott. This work is a light-hearted recollection of his naval career, covering voyages across most of the oceans of the world. With a fore word by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Inchcape. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with shelf wear to extremities. Marks to front board. Rubbing to joints. Blank leaf pasted to rear paste down. Mark to rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .