whalers (persons)

In order to fulfill a bet with Bryce, his nemesis, Fish has to go into the Hannibal W. Royce house, which is said to be haunted by the ghost of a whaling captain, and bring out the whaler's harpoon, which is supposedly dripping with blood.

Following a stray dog through a hole in a fence takes a teenage boy from his home in Brampton, Canada, to Juneau, Alaska, back in time, to the year 1935.

Thomas Cave makes a wager with the crew of a North Atlantic whaling ship that he can survive the harsh winter alone on an Arctic island in 1616.

A history of the whaling industry in nineteenth-century America, providing an account of how whales were caught and processed, and including first-hand accounts from men who worked on whalers and the wives who accompanied them.

Traces whaling from the days when Inuits hunted bowhead whales to contemporary bans on whaling worldwide.

An account of American whaling using excerpts from diaries, ships' logs, letters, and other documents written by the men and women who participated in the industry during the 19th century.

The history of whaling in New England from the early eighteenth century to its decline when oil was discovered in mid-nineteenth century.

Illustrations and easy-to-follow text describe what life was like for a sea captain living during the colonial times.