You Wouldn't Want to Sail on a 19Th-Century Whaling Ship: Grisly Tasks You'd Rather Not Do

You Wouldn't Want to Sail on a 19Th-Century Whaling Ship: Grisly Tasks You'd Rather Not Do image
ISBN-10:

0531123561

ISBN-13:

9780531123560

Released: Jan 01, 2004
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Format: Library Binding, 32 pages
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Description:

Describes the inglorious life of a boy from Nantucket who in 1819 joins the crew of a whaling ship, including freezing trips to the Arctic, carving scrimshaw, boiling whales for oil, and sinking ships.












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