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| #3605686 in Books | 2015-03-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .60 x7.20 x10.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 192 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderfully written! Weaves an historical tale worth traveling|By Customer|Wonderfully written! Weaves an historical tale worth traveling. Frink interweaves history with personal accounts to create a masterful book.||"Finely researched and written."--Michael P. Dyer, Senior Maritime Historian, New Bedford Whaling Museum
"(Ransom) in plain and forthright language. . . he makes a historic event come alive with the honesty of his comment."--Everett S. Allen, author
In 1860 fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Ransom followed his five older brothers into the dank foc sle of a whaling vessel. For fifteen years he hunted seventy-ton bowheads in Arctic waters, for the many uses of bone, blades of flexible baleen from the leviathan s enormous jaw, raised its value, even as petroleum replaced whale oil as a source of lighting. In 1871 Ransom survived the loss of thirty-two whaling vessels in the frigid waters off Alaska s Icy Cape. With him he ca...
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