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
Number of pages: 294
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
Description: In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.
Notes: Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-294).