Leviathan The History of Whaling in America

Name: Leviathan The History of Whaling in America
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ISBN: 9780393331578

ISBN-10: 0393331571

ISBN-13: 9780393331578

Edition: 2008

Authors: Eric Jay Dolin

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"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation."Nathaniel Philbrick. Leviathanis the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industryfrom its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.26" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Eric Jay Dolin is the author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History; andnbsp;Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. He is also the author of When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.



Introduction



Arrival and Ascent, 1614-1774



John Smith Goes Whaling



"The King of Waters, The Sea-Shouldering Whale"



All Along the Coast



Nantucket, the "Faraway Land"



The Whale's Whale



Into "Ye Deep"



Candle Wars



Glory Days



Tragedy and Triumph, 1775-1860



On the Eve of Revolution



Ruin



Up from the Ashes



Knockdown



The Golden Age



"An Enormous, Filthy Humbug"



Stories, Songs, Sex, and Scrimshaw



Mutinies, Murders, Mayhem, and Malevolent Whales



Disaster and Decay, 1861-1924



Stones in the Harbor and Fire on the Water



From the Earth



Ice Crush



Fading Away


Epilogue: Fin Out


Notes


Select Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments


Index