[PDF.36xt] Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 (Garland Reference Library of the)

Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 (Garland Reference Library of the)

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 | #2234279 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1995-08-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.51 x5.98l,.70 | File type: PDF | 252 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great condition and fast shipping|By Henry L Bell|This excellent book was new even though I purchased it as used. Very fast shipping and carefully packaged as well. This is a great read of days and industry gone by.....|1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Can't think of a title|By Kathy Mccracken|Good book, but|From Publishers Weekly|In her informative, engaging book, Creighton, a history professor and author of Dogwatch and Liberty Days: Seafaring Life in the 19th Century, offers valuable insight into the existence of real-life Ishmaels and Ahabs at the height of the

Traditional accounts of whaling celebrate exotic locales and dangerous exploits but shed little light on the lives of the men who went to sea. Rites and Passages places sailors at the center of a social history of whaling and explores the ways in which the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. Drawing on the evidence of ship logs and sailors' letters and journals, Margaret S. Creighton examines American whalemen during the industry's peak--the...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 (Garland Reference Library of the)   |  Margaret S. Creighton.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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