Armitage, Albert B. CADET TO COMMODORE. By Albert B. Armitage. Captain R.D., R.N.R. (retired); Commodore P. & O. Steam Navigation Company (retired); Second-in-Command, Jackson-Harmsworth North Polar Expedition, 1894-7; Second-in-Command, South Polar Expedition, and Navigator s.s. "Discovery," 1901-4; Awarded The Murchison Grant, 1898; Author of "Two Years in the Antarctic." With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Viscount Inchcape G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., K.C.I.E. First Edition, secondary issue; pp. xii, 308; portrait frontispiece, index; original coarse brown cloth, lettered in black; (names on endpaper; two coloured flags neatly affixed to title-page); a nice, bright copy; scarce. London; Cassell and Company, Ltd; (1925). ***Spence 68; Renard 53; Rosove 18.A1 (not noting this binding variant). Autobiographical. Armitage was Second-in-Command of Scott's "Discovery" expedition and later became Commodore of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company. He had also been Second-in-Command of the Jackson-Harmsworth North Polar Expedition, 1894-97. #42763 Click HERE to order A$275.00