Coppinger served as surgeon and naturalist aboard HMS Alert on a surveying voyage of 1878 to 1882. He describes the Falklands, Patagonia, the Trinidad Channel and the Chilean coast, Polynesia and the Mascarene Islands, with their people, animals and plants, keeping technical detail to a minimum for the general reader.
A worthy successor to Darwin’s Beagle voyage for readers who love scientific travel. Download the free EPUB.