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Whale ships and whaling ; a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries, with an account of the whale fishery in colonial New England /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dow, George Francis, 1868-1936
Other Authors: Wood, Frank (author of introduction.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salem, Mass. : Marine Research Society, 1925.
Series:Publication ... of the Marine Research Society ; no. 10.
Subjects:
Whaling > Pictorial works.
Whales > Pictorial works.
Whaling ships > Pictorial works.
Whaling > New England > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Model of the whaler "Deborah Gifford" of New Bedford, frontispiece
  • Preface
  • Introduction by Frank Wood, curator of the Bourne Whaling Museum, New Bedford
  • The whale fishery in colonial New England
  • Whale ships and whaling; a pictorial history of whaling during three centuries
  • Whaling vessels
  • The whaler "Charles W. Morgan" of New Bedford
  • Whales and whaling
  • Jonah and the whale
  • Index.