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Title:Resurrecting Dr Moss : The Life & Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD RN, 1837-1880
Series:(Northern Lights Series: 10)
Author:Paul C Appleton. Edited by William Barr
ISBN:155238232X : 9781552382325
Illustrations:29 colour & b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:221
Published:University of Calgary Press - September 2008
List Price: 25.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:Not yet published
Subjects:Maritime history


"Resurrecting Dr Moss" chronicles the life & death of Edward Lawton Moss, a Royal Navy surgeon on the last great British north polar expedition of the nineteenth century. Arctic historians & 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, & 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. The book includes several previously unpublished letters & is illustrated with a selection of Moss’s watercolours. Co-published with the Arctic Insititute of North America.