“What are you here for? The words seemed to hang in the air, floating on the wind that pushed against the sails and hissed through the rigging. Whales... oil... work… Not that any real whaleman needed to be told the answer. He could find it merely by glancing at the ship.”
The stories of American whalemen are told in bold narrative style, with illustrations which make a perfect backdrop for the telling. Texts, old drawings, whalemen's sketches, period prints, paintings, and photographs have been selected in an effort to set forth a pictorial history of whaling. The text, together with a colorful array of pictures, combine to make The Story of Yankee Whaling a book which cannot fail to stimulate the young reader's imagination.
Author: Irwin Shapiro in consultation with Edouard A. Stackpole
Title: The Story of Yankee Whaling
Edition: No edition remarks
Published: New York: Golden Press, 1959
Physical description: Hardcover; Quarto; 153p
Condition: No dust jacket. Illustrated boards and spine with foxing, edge wear, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Foxing alone top edge. Owner’s inscription on verso of front end-papers. Pages tanned.
Comments: Nice vintage copy
