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 322 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.

Download or read book The Yankee Whaler written by Clifford Warren Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Yankee Whaler Etc With Plates 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:

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.

Download or read book The Lost Fleet written by Marc Songini and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 574 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.

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.

Download or read book The Yankee Whaler With an Introd by R Cushman Murphy and a Pref to the Pictures by Zephaniah W Pease written by CLifford W. Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Yankee Whaler Popular Edition 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:

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:

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:

Download or read book Saga of the Yankee Whalers written by James L. Stokesbury and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Story written by Deborah Lisson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of Thomas Morris, Bunbury WA, 1876. Thomas Morris thinks something most mysterious is going on in Bunbury, where he delivers telegraphs. Some telegraphs carry cryptic messages, and there are strangers in town acting in an oddly inconsistent manner. In his diary, Tom records his exciting adventures as he tries to solve the mystery and then finds himself part of an amazing international plot.

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.

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:

Download or read book Leviathan The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.

Download or read book Sign of the Yankee Whalers written by James L. Stokesbury and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries the sea lured New Englanders away from home and family to face storm, shipwreck, mutiny, and a formidable prey -- the whale.

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.