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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: whaler at twilight
    sub title: a true account of whaling and redemption in the south Pacific
  name:
    name part: Brash, Alexander
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Armstrong, Robert W.
    name part: 1828-1905
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kiernan, Tom
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 320 pages, [16] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The long-lost true story of an American whaler, Robert Armstrong, who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the south Pacific in the mid-nineteenth century in search of absolution and redemption. Armstrong's gripping personal account is bookended by thoroughly researched contextual background compiled by his great-great-grandson, Alexander Brash, shedding further light on a turbulent historical period, his ancestor's religious milieu and the importance of saving our oceans' wildlife. A fascinating dive into both human morality and America's maritime history.
  table of contents: Part I: "Thar She Blows": The Manuscript and Background. -- Lost, But Now Am Found -- Primer in Whaling -- Reivers in Baltimore -- Part II: The Whaler's Tale: In His Words. -- Early Years -- Before the Mast -- Round the Horn -- Along the Line -- Islanders and Beachcombers -- The Southern Seas -- Into the Forests -- Wairoa -- Isaac Howland -- Homeward Bound -- Redemption -- Part III: The Trypot: The Historic Milieu of His Tale. -- Rob's Youth -- Smyrna Southbound -- Crimson Sea -- Carnage in Darwin's Wake -- Jackson's Levy -- Three More Tails -- New Zealand -- Fate of the Cantabs -- Gales of Amundsen's Sea -- Fate of Rob's Ships -- Part IV: Contemplative Gurry: Passions and Reflections. -- The Evolution of God -- In His Path -- A Fruitful Vine -- The Infinite Abyss.
  note: Alexander R. Brash and Robert W. Armstrong ; foreword by Tom Kiernan, President and CEO of American Rivers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ma
    geographic code: ps-----
    geographic code: n-us-md
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Armstrong, Robert W
      name part: 1828-1905
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    topic: Whalers (Persons)
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: New Bedford
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Whaling
    geographic: South Pacific Ocean
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Armstrong family
  subject:
    geographic: Baltimore (Md.)
    genre: Biography
  classification: G545 .A76 2023
  classification: 910.4/5 B
  identifier: 9781493074761
  identifier: 1493074768
  identifier: 9781493074778
  identifier: 2022060946
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230310
    record change date: 20231009132419.5
    record identifier: in00004745740