Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet - Tapa blanda

Allen, Everett

 
9781938700262: Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
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ISBN 10: 1938700260 ISBN 13: 9781938700262
Editorial: Commonwealth Editions, 2014

Sinopsis

Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industry and elevated it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously rescued without a single loss of human life. The damage to the fleet, however, was something from which New Bedford never fully recovered.

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Everett S. Allen was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1916. He moved to Martha's Vineyard when he was eight years old. After graduating from Tisbury High School, he attended Tabor Academy and Middlebury College. He was hired as a waterfront reporter by the New Bedford Standard-Times on the day before the hurricane of 1938, which became the subject for his book A Wind to Shake the World. After enlisting in the US Navy, where he served in Europe and participated in D-Day, he returned to the Standard-Times, where he worked until his retirement in 1979. The author of seven books, Allen died in 1990.

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Editorial
Commonwealth Editions
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1938700260
ISBN 13 
9781938700262
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
316
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