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Harpoons and Other Whalecraft
Originally published in 1984, this is the most complete history of American whalecraft available. It also includes a catalog of the New Bedford Whaling Museum Collection. Cloth bound 256 pages
$39.95
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A Window Back, softcover
A Window Back: Photography in a Whaling Port is a unique portrait of New England's yesterdays, recounting the history of photography in the New Bedford area between 1845 and 1920. 167 pages
$30.00
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Masters and Voyages II
Masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing From American Ports. A compilation of sources, by Judith Navas Lund. 744 pages
$125.00
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In the Heart of the Sea
By Nathaniel Philbrick. Never in the history of the whaling hunting had a ship been attacked by a whale. But on November 20,1820, the unthinkable happened. The whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. In minutes, the twenty-man crew (several of whom were only teenager)found themselves stranded in the middle of the pacific Ocean, in three leaky boats with the minimal supplies and little hope. 293 pages
$15.00
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Rites & Passages
The Experience of American Whaling 1830 - 1870, by Magaret S. Creighton. 249 pages
$27.99
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Saga of a Yankee Whaleman
This is a true account of how Albert Thomas worked his way from the Foc'sle to the captain's cabin in the series of whaling voyages between 1853-1876. 132 pages
$10.00
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To Build a Whaleboat
Historical Notes and a Model Maker's Guide, by Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. 150 pages
$18.00
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Sperm Whaling from New Bedford
"Sperm Whaling from New Bedford." By Elton W. Hall. Clifford W. Ashley's photographs of the Bark Sunbeam in 1904. The most complete known pictorial record of a sperm whaling voyage. Published by the New Bedford Whaling Museum. 221 pages
$18.00
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Book of Whales
by Richard Ellis. This book celebrates the beauty, the grandeur, the fascination, of this planet's thirty-three species of whales-from the legendary humpback, sperm, and the blue varieties to the equally alluring but lesser-known ginkgo-toothed, goosebeak and the scamperdown. 240 pages
$35.00
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Petticoat Whalers
Whaling Wives at Sea 1820 - 1920, by Joan Druett 219 pages
$16.95
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Hudson's Merchant and Whalers
This is the remarkable story of the seaport far from the sea-the City of Hudson, 120 miles from the Atlantic ocean, founded in 1783 by Quakers from Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and New Bedford beacame a great port for Whaling. 209 pages
$24.95
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Whale Oil trade
by Richard C. Kugler 23 pages
$4.00
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Life in a Whaling Town
by Sally Senzell Issacs 32 pages
$7.99
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Whaling Letters
A collection of letters between whalemen and their wives. Published by the Descendents of Whaling Masters, Inc. 116 pages
$16.95
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Twice Round the Loggerhead
The Culture of Whaling in the Azores, by Lance R. Lee and Bruce Halabisky. 128 pages
$15.00
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Whales, Whaing and the Ocean Ecosystems
This book explains how scientific approachs to conservation and whaling in the future ans weather it is possible to restore ocean ecosystems to their pre-whaling condition. 402 pages
$54.95
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The Whaling Season
An inside account of the struggle to stop commercial whaling. by Kieran Mulvaney 348 pages
$26.00
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