Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.
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Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 128pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs and color plates. Contemporary publisher's cloth with the cover titled in gilt. Owner name dated 1890, Waco, Texas, cardpocket on front pastedown but no identifiable library markings, bump at the top of the rear board near the spine, small chips on last two leaves, overall a near very good copy. Healy, the son of an Irish immigrant father and a Georgia slave mother, was freed by his father and joined the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service in 1865. He was made a junior officer and eventually was appointed commander aboard several cutters, the first African-American to be so named. His most distinguished service came while commanding the *Corwin* and the *Bear*, participating in several daring rescues, including the rescue of the Greeley Expedition, and an unusual operation where he transported more than 500 reindeer from Siberia to Alaska to save the local indigenous population from starvation. A reasonable copy in the original publisher's cloth binding.
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