Description The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s.
Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America's classic novels.
After exhausting other whaling sources--Beale, Scoresby, Bennett, and Browne--Melville turned.
University Press Of New England The whale and his captors; or, the whaleman's adventures, paperback/henry t. cheever
