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"The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts

Samuel Grant Williams | J. Ross Browne | Charles H. Robbins
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  • ISBN 9780786478668
  • Weight: 295g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 22 May 2014
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.
About Charles H. Robbins | J. Ross Browne | Samuel Grant Williams
The late Greg Bailey was a history writer, journalist, novelist, playwright and former attorney. His work appeared in The Economist, Time, the New Republic, Newsweek.com, Sierra, Wired, Narratively, Ozy, History News Network and many other publications. He lived in Missouri.

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