Cracker hash; the story of an apprentice in sail.

Autobiography by Royal Navy officer and Antarctic navigator Joseph Stenhouse, who is primarily known for his command of the SY Aurora while it drifted in sea ice during Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17. The book is almost entirely concerned with the earliest part of Stenhouse's career as a Merchant Officer apprentice on board sailing ships around the turn of the 20th century. Includes eight pages of black and white plates.