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Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship Hardback - 2003

by Eleanor Mathews

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In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend a year on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to the Antarctic. During the voyage, Murphy not only collected specimens and took photographs, developing them in seawater, but kept a journal that was later published and became a bestseller. Now, Eleanor Mathews, his granddaughter, has now taken Murphy's diary and supplementing it with his own original photographs, to present this fascinating story for modern readers. As a portrait of seafaring life, of the whaling industry still under sail, and an account of a natural history expedition, it is a unique window into a vanished time.

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  • Title Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship
  • Author Eleanor Mathews
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 2003 First US Ed
  • Pages 353
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher David R. Godine Publisher, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
  • Publication date November 1, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781567922462 / 1567922465
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.28 x 1.27 in (22.86 x 15.95 x 3.23 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Naturalists - United States, Antarctica - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003013721
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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