Product Description: Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville’s Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author’s life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With horrors and heroes, murder and mayhem, Mutiny on the Globe brings to life an amazing chapter in seafaring history. In 1824, two years into a whaling expedition out of Nantucket, Samuel Comstock organized a vicious mutiny, butchering the officers of the Globe in cold blood...read more

The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship’s first mate of the survivors’ three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick.

Tells the story of how a group of Dubliner's were able to keep construction crews at bay for eight years while archaeologists studied the remains of an original Viking settlement