Publisher's Synopsis
"It seems strange that I should only now publish an account of my extraordinary voyage and experience near the South Pole, but when I arrived in England my story seemed to be so out of the way that I was laughed and jeered at, and not having written anything in my life in the shape of a journal, I gave up talking about it. Now, however, sooner than the world should lose what ought to be of great interest to it, I will attempt, in my plain way, to give an account of what occurred to me, and of the strange people I fell in with, in my last voyage, especially as my span of life is drawing to a close. "
