An engaging account by a 25-year-old naturalist of a whaling voyage to South Georgia in 1912, taking the form of a log written to and for his new wife, Grace. Witty and reflective, including lots of material on his own reading and library, mostly during the ship’s passage through the tropics.
Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig
Murphy, Robert Cushman. Daisy, 1912-1913. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
- Whalemen's Reading
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Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913.
Murphy, Robert Cushman. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
- 1912-13 American Whaling Expedition (Daisy).
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An engaging account by a 25-year-old naturalist of a whaling voyage to South Georgia in 1912, taking the form of a log written to and for his new wife, Grace. Witty and reflective, including lots of material on his own reading and library, mostly during the ship’s passage through the tropics.