MASTER OF DESOLATION. THE REMINISCENCES OF CAPT. JOSEPH J. FULLER. Edited By Briton Cooper Busch.

349pp. Illus. With dust jacket. A fine coy. Fuller was a well-known whaling captain who sailed out of New London. Active in the speciliazed and little-known branch of the whaling industry that hunted sea elephants for oil, principally at Heard and Kerguelen "Desolation" Islands in the Indian ocean.