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The Yankee Whaler (Dover Maritime)
by Ashley, Clifford
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0486268543
- ISBN 13
- 9780486268545
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Dover Publications, 2012, 2012. Soft cover. New. Octavo, softcover, new in blue pictorial wraps. 156 pp. including index plus Dover catalog. Salted with wit and wisdom of a Yankee seaman, Ashley's engrossing account presents the "bloody and desperate quest" for the great whales and their valuable meat and oil. It offers detailed, evocative pictures of whaling traditions, life aboard ship, the myriad details of whaleship construction, rigging and navigation, gear and craft; much whalemen's lore concerning methods of attack and the behavior of the quarry, as well as sidelights on the unique personalities of whalemen from New Bedford, Nantucket, and Long Island ports.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84852
- Title
- The Yankee Whaler (Dover Maritime)
- Author
- Ashley, Clifford
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0486268543
- ISBN 13
- 9780486268545
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, 2012
- Place of Publication
- Mineola, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2012
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