The Yankee whaler
By: by Clifford W. Ashley; with an introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy and a preface to the pictures by Zephaniah W. Pease
Contributors: Augustus M. Kelley (Firm)
Edition: Popular edition re-issue
Publisher: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Clifton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Whaling; Personal narratives; History; Whales; Seafaring life; American prose literature; Male authors; White authors
Notes: Illustrated endpapers. Edition statement from title. Illustrated title vignette.

"A number of errors found in the Yankee whaler as it originally appeared have been corrected."--Foreword to 2d ed.

Contains "the account of my whaling voyage in the bark Sunbeam, originally published in Harpers̕ magazine some twenty years ago under the title 'The blubber-hunters.'"--Foreword to 1st ed.

"A list of books concerning whales and whaling": pages 147-149.

Originally published : Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.

Text in English.

Bound in brick-red cloth over boards. Upper cover features blocked image of a spouting baleen whale stamped in gilt. Spine title, bars, and ornamental devices (depicting various types of whale) stamped in gilt.

Catalogued 20181213 bhealy