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

Allen, Everett

ISBN 10: 0316034223 / ISBN 13: 9780316034227

Published by Little, Brown & Co, United States, 1973

About this Item

hardback, octavo, faint spotting to the closed edges, the binding tight and the contents clean and unmarked. The pictorial dust jacket is well preserved and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, Illustrated, maps, 302pp.

Seller Inventory # 295188

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 & Co, United States
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316034223
• ISBN 13: 9780316034227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.