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

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, History, Americas, United States, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins ISBN: 9781476613680
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: May 3, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins
ISBN: 9781476613680
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: May 3, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

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 exposé 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.

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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 exposé 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.

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