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

Allen, Everett S.

ISBN 10: 0940160234 / ISBN 13: 9780940160231

Published by Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, Inc. ., 1983

About this Item

VG; minor creasing to front cover of self-wraps. Chronicles building & voyage of eight Quaker-built vessels out of New Bedford that were lost in the Arctic whaling grounds in 1871. Illustrated by maps, plates, historic photos. 1st printing, reprint. References, Index. xix, 302 pp.

Seller Inventory # 000607

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
• Publisher: Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, Inc. .
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940160234
• ISBN 13: 9780940160231
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Maritime
  • Massachusetts
  • American history

About this title

Synopsis

Discusses the settlement of New Bedford by the Quakers, their development of the whaling industry, and the events surrounding the destruction of the Arctic fleet in 1871

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.