| "The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts Contributor(s): Williams, Samuel Grant (Author), Browne, J. Ross (Author), Robbins, Charles H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786478667 ISBN-13: 9780786478668 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Technology & Engineering | Fisheries & Aquaculture |
| Dewey: 639.280 |
| LCCN: 2014010989 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook. Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: Incidents of a Whaling Voyage by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841); Etchings of a Whaling Cruise by J. Ross Browne (1846), an expose of the whaling industry; and The Gam: Being a Group of Whaling Stories by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins (1899), a personal story of nearly an entire life at sea. The four accounts open the 19th century world of whaling to modern readers in a realistic and unromantic way. |