The Whalers

Slight rubbing to top of leading edge of front cover.
Otherwise in very good condition.

Contents:
Yankee scourges of ‘the great Leviathan’
‘Into the charmed, churned circle’
Triumph’s hellish ritual: cutting in and trying out
A heroic tradition from Stone Age times
God Almighty of the quarter-deck
A Yankee ocean 10,000 miles from home
A whale of a show for stay-at-homes
The whaling wife: life alone or lif abroad
Folk art from the scrimshander’s blade
The devilfish of Baja California
The ultimate ordeal by fire and ice