Author: Clement Cleveland Sawtell
Publisher:
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Category : Whales
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Bibliographical notes: p. 96-100.

Author: Joseph R. Anthony
Publisher:
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Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Alexander R. Brash
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493074776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Nestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript—a long-lost story the author's great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler at Twilight is the true account of an American whaler who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century in search of absolution and redemption. After the deaths of his parents, young Robert Armstrong lived with a successful uncle—a well-respected Methodist shopkeeper in bustling 1840s Baltimore—and attended the nation’s first dental school. But Armstrong threw his future away, drinking himself into oblivion. Devoured by guilt and shame, in December 1849 he sold his dental instruments, his watch, and all other possessions and signed on for a whaling voyage departing from New Bedford. Decades later, Armstrong wrote an autobiographical account based on his travel logs, chronicling his thrilling, gritty experiences during his ten years overseas. His memoirs describe his encounters with other whalers, beachcombers, Peruvian villagers, Pacific Islanders, Maori warriors in New Zealand, cannibals on Fiji, and the impacts of American expansionism. He also recounted his struggles with drink, his quest for God, and his own redemption. Armstrong’s gripping personal account is bookended by thoroughly researched contextual background compiled by Alexander Brash, a noted professional conservationist. Brash fills out Armstrong’s intimate and timeless tale by shedding further light on whaling and its impacts, his ancestor’s religious milieu, and the importance of marine conservation today. A Whaler at Twilight is a fascinating dive into both human morality and American history.

Author: Davis Wasgatt Clark
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651598
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

Author: Susan Snow Lukesh
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN: 1647198615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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In Frozen in Time, Susan Snow Lukesh takes a mid-nineteenth century photo album from New Bedford, Massachusetts, created against an almost unmentioned backdrop of the Civil War, and moves the people seemingly frozen in time backwards and forwards, offering details of daily living, marrying, working, and dying of both the individuals whose portraits are included as well as their kin and colleagues. The details of daily living, of the marrying, working, and dying of the neighbors and kin in the photo album from New Bedford, demonstrate the personal side of the development of this famous whaling capital through its transition to a strong mill economy. These details also show how the financial and intellectual capital of the city fueled development throughout the United States. This album with its very small cast of neighbors and kin thus unfolds to offer a glimpse of the rich panorama of nineteenth-century New Bedford. The biographical sketches of the onstage and offstage players combined with the histories presented (of New Bedford, of nineteenth-century social media, and of the album itself) reveal a snapshot of New Bedford’s citizens, New Bedford’s history and industries, and, importantly, New Bedford’s part in the Civil War. Frozen in Time presents local history in the broader context of the United States and can be seen as well as an example of petite histoire – an account of particular households and neighborhoods, reminding readers of the continuing importance of both family and neighborhoods, real or virtual. The discussion of nineteenth-century social media also shows those in the twenty-first century that Facebook can be seen as old social media on a new platform. The photographs from the time of the Civil War underscore the arc of photography from its first use capturing images of war to its present use to record violence perpetuated on and perpetuated by police and others at home and around the world. Lukesh was entrusted with the family album that is the basis for Frozen in Time and used her experience in research, artifact interpretation, and writing to develop the narrative of the book. She hopes readers will take away the importance and value of both family and history, as well as the part of the family in history.

Author: Thomas H. Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kathleen (Bark)
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Willis Abbot
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429020148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: William Armstrong Fairburn
Publisher:
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Category : Commission merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Author: Alexander Starbuck
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354414626
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.