Etchings of a Whaling Cruise.

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1968. Reprint of a key work on American whaling which, gives a general picture of life on a whaling ship in the 1840s and... contains much information relevant to whaling in the Pacific Ocean. - Forster 11. It was also an important source and inspiration for Herman Melville, who reviewed this book for Literary World in 1847. Jenkins p. 84. Howes B-877. This edition of Browne's classic comes with a scholarly introduction by John Seelye, and is a good opportunity for those unable or unwilling to scratch up the $$ for a first edition. About fine condition in pictorial dust jacket. . 23 cm. *27, xiii, 580 pp. b/w plates