Final Voyage
Whaling
Fiction, sea stories
Seafaring life
Fiction, historical
Economic conditions
Nonfiction
Biography
History
A maritime adventure set against a lush historical backdrop. 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 fertil…
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