Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Sea Whaling
Palgrave Macmillan, February 2000. Hardcover. Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next. Danger, abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for two centuries. The Nantucketers, the first and the best, taught the world how whaling should be done. "Ahab's Trade" tracks.....