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GUSN-249117
xii, 432 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Whaling History.
Whalers (Persons) History.
Songini, Marc L.
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.
New York : St. Martin's Press
xii, 432 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-414) and index.
Complimentary copy, August 7, 2007. [LA2007.0105]
9780312286484
0312286481
Stacks SH383.2.S66 2007
Williams, Thomas W. (Thomas William)
United States
Arctic Ocean
1st ed.
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