Final Voyage

Final Voyage A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season

Hardback (15 Oct 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the summer of 1871, 32 whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, a whaling captain & 1218 other men, women & children, were destroyed in an Arctic storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring & heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America's first oil industry was fateful & catastrophic.

Book information

ISBN: 9780399156021
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: G.P. Putnam's
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.372950974485
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 294
Weight: 499g
Height: 234mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 28mm