Title: The whalers /
Authors: Whipple, A. B. C. 1918-2013.; Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time-Life Books,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Whaling History; Whaling New England History.
Abstract: Bibliography:p.172.
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 life: life alone or life aboard -- Folk art from the scrimshander's blade -- The devilfish of Baja California -- The ultimate ordeal by fire and ice.