The lost fleet
Subtitle: a Yankee whaler's struggle against the Confederate Navy and Arctic disaster
By: Marc Songini
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780312286484
Subjects: Whalers (Persons); Whaling; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-414) and index.
Table of contents: title: Book One: Brave men, braver women; title: Lonely but not alone; title: A Lighthouse Keeper; title: In wild and distant seas; title: Journey's End; title: Book Two: The first iron; title: The Daring Fishermen of New England; title: Old Rodney; title: An Indifferent Screw Steamer; title: A Pirate Deed; title: Like pursuing a coy Maiden; title: The Other "Alabama"; title: Come on my Deck and Fight me; title: Terrible Havoc; title: Book three: Finding the life; title: Idle Wharves and dismasted Ships; title: Death stared us in the Face; title: In the topmost frost killed end of Creation; title: How many will see the last day of Next August?; title: The most crushing Blow; title: Book Four: Rolling out the Fin; title: Enough to fill a Book; title: Appreciable Deterioration; title: Looking for a modern Joshua; title: A dreary and Uncertain March; title: Epilogue: The Clear eyed men of the sea.