Cover of Ahab's trade

Ahab's trade

by G. A. Mawer, Allen Mawer

1999 393 pages eng

"Ahab's Trade tracks the rise and fall of this first truly global industry and tells the stories of the men who made it. Although they whaled in American, British, French, Australian and New Zealand ships, their calling made them citizens of a separate, closed and isolated world quite unlike that ev…

Borrow to read

This scan is available through Internet Archive's free lending library — sign in or create a free account below, then borrow to read.

Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.