Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship

Author: Mathews, Eleanor

Publication:Jaffrey, NH : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Condition: Used: Very Good

Description: No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. slight edge wear to boards and jacket; In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend a year on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to the Antarctic. During the voyage, Murphy not only collected specimens and took photographs, developing them in seawater, but kept a journal that was later published and became a bestseller. Now, Eleanor Mathews, his granddaughter, has now taken Murphy's diary and supplementing it with his own original photographs, to present this fascinating story for modern readers. As a portrait of seafaring life, of the whaling industry still under sail, and an account of a natural history expedition, it is a unique window into a vanished time.

Ref#: 055280

Subject: History

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