The Yankee Whaler

Author : Clifford Ashley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144283
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yankee Whaler written by Clifford Ashley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest, most colorful and definitive studies of whaling ever published. Construction and outfitting of ships, crafts and routines, hunting methods, much more. 133 halftones. 17 line illustrations. Introduction.

Author : Clifford Warren Ashley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yankee Whaler written by Clifford Warren Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony J. Connors
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 161376653X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Went to the Devil written by Anthony J. Connors and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll's story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade.

Author : Marc Songini
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466858338
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Fleet written by Marc Songini and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic disasters, rogue whales, ambush by Confederate ships--the true saga of one captain's struggle to survive the demise of the Yankee whaling fleet It's the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Many whalers give up the life—but some carry on the vocation. One such man is a captain from Connecticut, Thomas William Williams. Not only does he go out on voyage after voyage, he even takes on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter. The Lost Fleet's thrilling narrative recounts Williams' remarkable career, including a daring escape from the Confederate cruiser Alabama and a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast. Songini has crafted a historical masterpiece in recording a family saga, a true narrative of adventure and death on the high seas, and a detailed and well-researched look at the demise of Yankee whaling.

Author : M.J. Cosson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618107577
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Whalers written by M.J. Cosson and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces The History Of Whaling, Using Whale Oil For Lighting Lamps, Making Perfume, Soap, To Finish Leather And Woolen Products, And Biographies Of Yankee Whalers.

Author : Irwin Shapiro
Publisher : New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Yankee Whaling written by Irwin Shapiro and published by New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a history of whaling in New England.

Author : Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Whalers in the South Seas written by Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. B. C. Whipple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Whalers in the South Seas written by A. B. C. Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Story of the Whaler written by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R. Bockstoce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295974477
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whales, Ice, and Men written by John R. Bockstoce and published by . This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the shores and waters where the great adventure was played out. His book is written with such mastery and vigor that we confidently greet it as the finest history yet written on any aspect of American whaling.