Yankee Whalers in the South Seas by A. B. C. Whipple

Yankee Whalers in the South Seas
A. B. C. Whipple
Charles E. Tuttle Company
ISBN 9780804810579
Copyright 1973
Fourth printing 1985
Illustrated by Richard M. Powers
304 pages

The binding is tight and the pages are clean except for a small notation on the last blank page. The cover is scuffed and faded, there is a price sticker on the back and the bottom edge of the book is somewhat rippled.   Acceptable. Paperback.

The author has collected tales of whaling lore: stories of ships sunk by rogue whales, tales of the real-life prototype of Moby Dick, and yarns of cannibalism, mutiny, and Polynesian "marriage."