The journal of Brian Doyle
Subtitle: a greenhorn on an Alaskan whaling ship
By: by Jim Murphy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Dear America book; My name is America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Whaling -- Fiction.; Ocean travel -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.