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Birth of a whaleship

Birth of a whaleship

by Hegarty, Reginald B.

Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
1st edition
Published
1964
Binding
Decorated boards
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New Bedford Public Library, Mass., 1964. 159 p. ill. b/w lines of the ships and photographs. very good decorated boards, slight sunning of spine. Covers the construction of New Bedford whalers, these barquentine ships famous late 1800's stood the rigors long sea passages. The details of the hull design and all the masts, rigging, sails are explained.
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Yankee Whalers in the South Seas

Yankee Whalers in the South Seas

by Whipple, A.B.C

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Used - fair
Jacket Condition
none
Edition
1st
Published
1954
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Doubleday, 1954. 1st. fair.ex lib Tales of the New England whalermen in the South seas. 304 pages
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Logbook for Grace

Logbook for Grace

by Murphy, Robert Cushman

Condition
Used - good
Edition
1965
Published
1947
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Time Inc., 1947. 1965. good. tpb slight cresing of cover and a small chip off back top. Describes passages thorugh the Sargasso sea and Cape Horn, the whaling activity and the life aboard the ships.
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Mutiny on the Globe

Mutiny on the Globe

by Heffernan, Thomas Farel

Condition
Used - fine
Jacket Condition
fine
Edition
1st
Published
2002
ISBN
9780393041637
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WW Norton, 2002. 1st. fine/fine. The story of the mutiny in 1824 aboard the whaler Globe, and the life of the mutineer Samuel Comstock.
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Of whales and men

Of whales and men

by Robertson, R.B

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Used - fair
Edition
1964, 1st pb imp
Published
1954
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Simon & Schuster, 1954. 1964, 1st pb imp. fair. tpb A first hand account of modern whaling the in South Atlantic and the Antarctic. 300 pages
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