Final voyage
Subtitle: a story of Arctic disaster and one fateful whaling season
By: Peter Nichols.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780399156021
Subjects: Whaling -- Arctic regions -- History -- 19th century; Marine accidents -- Arctic regions -- History -- 19th century; Whaling -- Economic aspects -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- History -- 19th century; Seafaring life -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- History -- 19th century; New Bedford (Mass.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; New Bedford (Mass.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Alaska, June 1871; title: The dearest place in all New England; title: A nursery and a kindergarten; title: The crucible of deviancy; title: The killing floes; title: The Nantucket paradigm; title: Well cut up; title: The newer Bedford; title: Neither land nor sea nor air; title: The profits of asceticism; title: The ships and the men; title: Old lights and new; title: Frequent visitors; title: Paradigm shift; title: Our dreadful situation; title: Abandonment; title: Aftermath; title: How hard it is to rise, when you're really truly down; title: Epilogue one : William Fish Williams; title: Epilogue two: Discovery of Prudhoe Bay oil