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Title: From the Bottom Up
The Life Story of Alexander Irvine

Author: Alexander Irvine

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Language: English

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FROM THE BOTTOM UP

The Life Story of Alexander Irvine

Illustrated

[Illustration: Alexander Irvine, 1909.
Photograph by Vanderweyde]

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1910
All Rights Reserved, Including that of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1909, 1910 by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, February, 1910

TO

MAUDE HAZEN IRVINE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Boyhood in Ireland 3

II. The Beginning of an Education 24

III. On Board a Man o' War 40

IV. Problems and Places 53

V. The Gordon Relief Expedition 63