| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 432 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-414) and index. |
| Contents |
Book One: Brave men, braver women -- Lonely but not alone -- A Lighthouse Keeper -- In wild and distant seas -- Journey's End -- Book Two: The first iron -- The Daring Fishermen of New England -- Old Rodney -- An Indifferent Screw Steamer -- A Pirate Deed -- Like pursuing a coy Maiden -- The Other "Alabama" -- Come on my Deck and Fight me -- Terrible Havoc -- Book three: Finding the life -- Idle Wharves and dismasted Ships -- Death stared us in the Face -- In the topmost frost killed end of Creation -- How many will see the last day of Next August? -- The most crushing Blow -- Book Four: Rolling out the Fin -- Enough to fill a Book -- Appreciable Deterioration -- Looking for a modern Joshua -- A dreary and Uncertain March -- Epilogue: The Clear eyed men of the sea . |
| Subject |
Whaling -- United States -- History.
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Whalers (Persons) -- United States -- History.
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Williams, Thomas W. (Thomas William)
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Whaling -- Arctic Ocean -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780312286484 |
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0312286481 |
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