NUNN, JOHN., W.B. CLARKE, EDITOR.

Narrative of the wreck of the "Favorite" on the island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and its whale and seal fisheries.... London: W.E. Painter, 1850.

W.B. CLARKE, EDITOR. Narrative of the wreck of the "Favorite" on the island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and its whale and seal fisheries.... London: W.E. Painter, 1850.
8vo (220 x 140 mm). Wood engraved frontispiece, folding map, numerous illustrations in text, list of subscribers, errata slip, publisher's catalogue at end. Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth gilt. Corners bumped, map torn, one gathering loose.

FIRST EDITION. Nunn was in a party of crewmen from Favorite who were stranded on Kerguelen Island (then known as Desolation Island to British seamen) during a sealing expedition. Left behind by the captain, the men spent two years marooned on the island before they were found. Nunn's account is a detailed and well-illustrated tale of fortitude and survival. Sabin 56339; Spence 868.