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

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

Mathews, Eleanor

Hardcover

Adventurers & ExplorersArctic History

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ISBN10: 1567922465
ISBN13: 9781567922462
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: Nov 18 2003
Pages: 353
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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