Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler.

New York: For the Author, 1878. sep 22 2017. 12mo. x-317 pp. b/w frontispiece portrait. Faulkner app...

1878 · New York

by Faulkner, Joseph P.
New York: For the Author, 1878. sep 22 2017. 12mo. x-317 pp. b/w frontispiece portrait.

Faulkner appears to have sailed on the schooner Franklin of New London. She wintered over and returned with 393 barrels of whale oil and 6600 pounds of whale bone. The author provides vivid accounts of shipboard life and the business of whaling. Jenkins, p. 99. Starbuck pp. 622-623. A Very Good copy of the first edition in original cloth binding. (Inventory #: 39611)
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