A book of extensive excerpts of whalemen’s own escape literature, their own personal journals, often sentimental claptrap about home, love, and death, but best when devoted to their trade of whaling which they tended to depict accurately and realistically.
And the Whale is Ours: Creative Writing of American Whalemen.
Miller, Pamela A. Boston: David R. Godine: Kendall Whaling Museum 1979.
- Whalemen's Reading
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And the Whale is Ours: Creative Writing of American Whalemen.
Miller, Pamela A. (Boston: David R. Godine: Kendall Whaling Museum 1979).
- Maritime Reading
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A book of extensive excerpts of whalemen’s own escape literature, their own personal journals, often sentimental claptrap about home, love, and death, but best when devoted to their trade of whaling which they tended to depict accurately and realistically.