"Blows! She blows!" the lookout in the crow's nest of a whaling ship sings out. Perhaps he spies a right whale, or a huge, hard-fighting sperm whale breaking the water's surface. So begins a dramatic chase that–if the sailors have "greasy luck"–will end with the capture of the whale and the ship's hold full of barrels of valuable whale oil.
Carol Carrick brings the golden age of American whaling to life in her detailed, tightly written text that traces the history of the whaling industry to the present day.
David Frampton's woodcut illustrations portray the awesome power and beauty of the whales. Whaling Days conveys the backbreaking, often dangerous labor of the men who hunt whales, and the appreciative conviction of those people who seek to preserve them.
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