Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Norman Dietz, Peter Nichols

Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season

Norman Dietz, Peter Nichols

missing page info Add in missing page information first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative tense slow-paced
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In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil. New Bedford, Massachusetts, was fertile groun...

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