Bullen signs on to a sperm-whaling ship out of New Bedford with a brutal captain and a crew of mixed nations, and describes the voyage from the seaman’s point of view. Boats are lowered and whales struck, blubber is cut in and tried out, and the ship works through the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, with storms, island stops and quarrels on the way.
A vivid account of nineteenth-century whaling, for readers who loved Moby-Dick and want the working detail. Download the free EPUB.