The Sealers.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. Rescued from an Arctic shipwreck, the young author decides to go sealing with Captain Schjelderup, his rescuer. What follows is an absolutely authentic account of that life, "the backbreaking, gory toil of killing and flaybing seal, day and night... the labor of dragging skins for hours over jagged ice... when the ice blocks are crashing around him in a stinging arctic blizzard." First edition, very good condition, in slightly sunned and chipped dust jacket, illustrated by Gordon Grant.. 20.5 cm. 247 pp. b/w lines ills. as chapter heads.