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"O'er the wide and tractless sea" : Original art of the Yankee whale hunt
Title
"O'er the wide and tractless sea" : Original art of the Yankee whale hunt / by MIchael P. Dyer.
ISBN
9780997516135
0997516135
Publication
New Bedford, Massachusetts : Old Dartmouth Historical Society / New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2017.
Physical Description
365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Variant and related titles
Over the wide and tractless sea
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345 - 354) and index.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Whaling in America's larger maritime culture
"Kept for my own amusement": a comparative overview of whaler's logbooks and journals
Recognizing landfalls
Illustrating a whaling voyage around the world
A gallery of ship portraits
The creative process
A gallery of whaling scenes
Epilogue: "So ends the day": illustration in the waning years of Yankee whaling
Bibliography
Index.
Subjects
Also listed under
Old Dartmouth Historical Society (New Bedford, Mass.)
New Bedford Whaling Museum.
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