2nd printing, 10/73 of the 1973 original. XII, 302 PP with 2 maps and 17 b/w illustrations (7 on double page). Eps: Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean, September 1871. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few small pieces missing and is in a protective sleeve. Note at top of title page blocked out (liquid ink). Otherwise a near fine copy. 24 x 16. Out of a fleet of 39 American whaling ships, 32 of them were trapped or crushed by the ice pack in 1871-72.

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Title: CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT, The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Boston. .
Publication Date: 1973
ISBN 10: 0316034223
ISBN 13: 9780316034227
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR, FADING & MINOR DISCOLORATION ON COVERS AND SPINE. INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES CLEAN AND INTACT.

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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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