The Island of Greasy Luck
Author : Jean Miller
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780964721104
Author : Jean Miller
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780964721104
Author : Gordon Grant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0486147231
Entire art and craft of whaling is depicted, from views of the galley and the sight of a whale breaching, to examples of scrimshaw art and a version of a "Nantucket sleigh ride." 64 plates.
Author : Frank Morral
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1625852355
The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Discover the story behind the Nantucket Civil War Monument--and learn about some named on it, some left off and some who may not belong. Meet the Cold Water Army of seven hundred schoolchildren who paraded against King Alcohol in hopes that the island would become a temperance oasis. Little remains of the bathing pavilion and water slide of the long-lost town of Coatue that once had big plans for expansion. With surprising facts and captivating tales, authors Frank Morral and Barbara Ann White explore these and other lost accounts of the faraway island.
Author : Rachel Field
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Jean Miller
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462404480
After the funeral for her parents, Jim and Margaret Tilford, twenty-two-year-old Maggie Tilford is left alone in their Indiana farmhouse to grieve. An only child, Maggie is now in charge of preparing the estate for sale. In the dusty attic, a place where she was never allowed as a child, she discovers a trunk that holds the secrets to her pasta past of which she was unaware. Maggie, a school teacher, is shocked to learn that she was adopted. Once she knows this, she is determined to learn the complete truth. Old photos lead her to Boston and eventually, with the help of Boston attorney Dan Kippington, to Nantucket, a tiny island thirty miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Their investigation leads them into encounters with a haunted inn, a sinister innkeeper, a deserted Victorian house, a German spy, and an ailing old woman who holds the key to Maggies past. Maggies search begins in Boston and ends on Nantucket Island, a place where magical things happen and people fall in lovenot only with each other, but with the island as well.
Author : Andrea Kirkpatrick
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 103915865X
It’s almost impossible to imagine spending eight months at sea “without once putting foot on land.” But that’s exactly what whalers experienced when playing the dangerous “game of chance,” hunting down leviathans for oil and bone—all for a “lay,” or share, of the vessel’s spoils. A Game of Chance is the first comprehensive, in-depth study of British North American South Seas whaling. Author Andrea Kirkpatrick takes readers on a series of fascinating and sometimes fantastical journeys as she chronicles in great detail the story of a largely forgotten industry that operated out of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports from the 1760s to 1850. Kirkpatrick plumbed the depths of myriad logbooks and journals to piece together the often-murky tales of an astonishing number of ships. In this treatise covering a century of whaling, she shares details such as ownership, tonnage, voyages, captains’ pedigrees, and names of crewmen, including nascent whaler Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Hoping for “greasy luck,” the men who manned these ships found both camaraderie and competition as they hunted the world’s whaling grounds from Cape Horn to Kamchatka, many circumnavigating the globe during their careers. They battled squalls and high seas, scurvy and venereal disease, heartbreak and homesickness—and sometimes each other. Many never returned home, their bodies committed to the deep or buried on foreign land. Written in two parts—landward and seaward—Kirkpatrick’s clear prose and adoption of whaling lingua franca brings this high-risk venture to the fore with authenticity, newly revealed facts, and remarkable stories of adventure.
Author : William Stephens Hayward
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1875
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gideon Defoe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408824965
It's come to my attention that the old girl's a little bit past her best. And I can hardly maintain my reputation as a terror of the high seas with bits falling off the boat all the time, can I? The Pirate Captain is in trouble. Eager to appease his crew with a boat that has a functioning mast, fewer holes and cannons that actually fire, he splashes out on the fancy new Lovely Emma, spending six thousand doubloons he doesn't have. Finding themselves in debt to the beautiful but deadly Cutlass Liz - or the Butcher of Barbados, as she's otherwise known - the pirates need to raise some money fast. In a desperate race against time, our heroes embark on an adventure that will take them from the shores of Nantucket to the bright lights of Las Vegas, to the ends of the earth in search of a mythical white whale, and even, perhaps, into the dark depths of madness. But hopefully they'll be home in time for tea.
Author : Edward T. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Oceania
ISBN :
Author : Edward T. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Oceania
ISBN :