Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling

Granville Allen Mawer

Allen & Unwin, 2000 - History - 393 pages

Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale will seem like a minor eccentricity compared to the tales in this beautifully written adventure story about life on the high seas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling
• Author: Granville Allen Mawer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2000
• ISBN: 1865084476, 9781865084473
• Length: 393 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Technology & Engineering / Fisheries & Aquaculture