Name/Title
The Story of Yankee WhalingEntry/Object ID
2004.0216.222Description
"...The history of whaling is a story of brave harpooners, bloody mutineers, and doomed ships - including the ill-fated 'Essex', smashed to splinters by an enrged eighty-five-foot whale, leaving its crew in three small boats a thousand miles from land.
The whole astounding saga of the search for whales - from the days when Indians stalked them in canoes, with bows and arrows, through the era of the heroic New Englanders' four-year voyages around the world, right up tot he twentieth century..."
Physical Description: Softcover bookCollection
Maritime CollectionBook Details
Author
American Heritage (editors)Publisher
Harper & RowDate Published
1600 - 1955Publication Language
EnglishCall No.
910.4 S Whaling MaritimeLCCN
59-14690Notes
Date: 1959
Copy No.: 1