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

Allen, Everett S.

ISBN 10: 0316034223 / ISBN 13: 9780316034227

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1973

About this Item

Exterior dampstains; cocked binding; shaken spine; a reading copy. 302 pages.

Seller Inventory # 057896

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316034223
• ISBN 13: 9780316034227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: Stated First Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.