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More than Herman Melville and Moby Dick
Despite the title, this book is about alot more than the disaster of the 1871 arctic whaling fleet. Mr. Nichols covers the rise of New England whaling from its roots in Native American fishing, through the religious intolerance of the Puritans against the Quakers(which led to the Quakers founding their own towns and the whaling industry), through to the downfall of this "industry" when competing with the new oil industry of the mid 1800's. Alomg the way he uses several prominent whaling families to descibe the rise and fall and how these families delt with the change of their businesses; the 1871 disaster being the penultimate conclusion to the New England whalers. An extremly readable book about a vital early American industry and its downfall.
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