Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet - Brossura

Allen, Everett S.

 
9781938700262: Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
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ISBN 10: 1938700260 ISBN 13: 9781938700262
Casa editrice: Commonwealth Editions, 2015

Sinossi

Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industry and elevated it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously rescued without a single loss of human life. The damage to the fleet, however, was something from which New Bedford never fully recovered.

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Editore
Commonwealth Editions
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1938700260
ISBN 13 
9781938700262
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
302
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780316034227: Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet by Everett S Allen (1973-08-01)

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0316034223 ISBN 13:  9780316034227
Casa editrice: Little, Brown and Company, 1973
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