A thousand leagues of blue
Subtitle: the Pacific whaling voyages of Charles and Susan Veeder of Nantucket
By: Betsy Tyler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Nantucket Historical Association
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781882201075
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Whaling; History; Seafaring life
Description: "[Susan Veeder] lived on a whaleship for more than four years, recording her experiences in a rare, illustrated journal, then settled back into her Nantucket home while her husband and sons all returned to the sea.  In a shocking denouement to their lives together, Susan's husband, Charles, a respected and successful whaling captain, devolved into a drunken madman on his final trip to the Pacific, falling for a Polynesian woman and choosing to remain in the South Seas for the rest of his life." -- book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Received with the papers of Rochelle Ruthchild.

Bound in original navy cloth; in dust jacket as issued.