Meditations from Steerage - Two Whaling Journal Fragments (Kendall Whaling Museum Monograph series No.7)

Two firsthand voyage narratives by Yankee whalemen from the middle ranks -- one a harpooneer's essays on whaling, the natural history of whales, and the plight of the boatsteerer; the other an articulate account of life on shipboard outward bound to Chile, Hawaii, and the North Pacific, are here compiled and edited by Stuart Frank, Director of the Kendall Whaling Museum.