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Resurrecting Dr. Moss : the life and letters of a Royal Navy surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880 / Paul C. Appleton ; edited by William Barr.

Title: Resurrecting Dr. Moss : the life and letters of a Royal Navy surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880 / Paul C. Appleton ; edited by William Barr.
Author: Appleton, Paul C. (Paul Campbell), 1930-2006
Publication: Calgary : University of Calgary Press : Arctic Institute of North America, c2008.

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xvi, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 28 cm.

Summary

"Resurrecting Dr. Moss chronicles the life and death of Edward Lawton Moss, a Royal Navy surgeon on the last great British north polar expedition of the nineteenth century. Arctic historians and bibliophiles are familiar with Moss's account of the1875-76 British Arctic Expedition, published under the title Shores of the Polar Sea, but little has been known about Moss himself. Now, thanks to Paul Appleton's painstaking research, his life has taken shape in this well-crafted biography." "Relying heavily on Moss's own letters, Appleton has created a portrait of a man he calls "an example of the best traditions of British naval medicine during the Victorian era." Author, artist, explorer, and scientist, Dr. Moss was also a pioneering medical officer. After being posted in British Columbia, he played a pivotal role in founding one of the earliest medical institutions on Canada's west coast, the hospital at the Esquimalt Naval Base. Dr. Moss's life was cut short at the age of thirty-seven when the HMS's Atalanta disappeared en route from Bermuda in 1880." "Resurrecting Dr. Moss includes several previously unpublished letters and is illustrated with a selection of Moss's watercolours."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; no. 10

Uniform Title

Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) no. 10.

Subject

Genre/Form

Collected Correspondence
Biography
Biographies
History
Records and correspondence
Letters.
Biographies.

Note

Co-published by the Arctic Institute of North America.
Includes watercolours by Edward L. Moss.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.

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committed to retain

ISBN

9781552382325
155238232X

LCCN

^^2009417277

OCLC

230986948
SCSB-12408778

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Harvard Library