PURSUING THE WHALE: A Quarter-Century of Whaling in the Arctic.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Original gray cloth, octavo, x, 344 pp., frontispiece and 21 illustrations from photographs. Spine and top of front board moderately faded, else fine. No d/j. Item #23705
The suthor was born in 1857 to a seafaring family in Provincetown, MA. He sailed his first whaling voyage at the age of 22 in 1879.
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