Twenty Years Before the Mast: with the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumnavigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838-1842 (1896)

Charles Erskine was at the time of publication in 1896 the only survivor of the famous United States Exploring Expedition Around the Globe, under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. An Invaluable Contribution to the Literature of Antarctic