The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales, published in 1890, collects early stories that Arthur Conan Doyle had written for magazines before Sherlock Holmes made his name. The title story, drawn from his own voyage on an Arctic whaler, is a ghost story told through a medical student's journal. "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" offers an explanation for the abandoned ship Mary Celeste, and the collection continues with "The Great Keinplatz Experiment," "The Man from Archangel," "That Little Square Box," "John Huxford's Hiatus," "Cyprian Overbeck Wells," "John Barrington Cowles," "Elias B. Hopkins" and "The Ring of Thoth," mixing the uncanny, the comic and the adventurous. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first story is free.
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What kind of book is The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales?
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle is filed under "Short Stories" in the Vinteuil library.
