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Oil and ice: a story of arctic disaster and the rise and fall of america's last whaling dynasty

By Peter , Nichols

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN
9781101460955, 1101460954
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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322 kB (330120 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;HISTORY--United States--19th Century;HISTO

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"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative ... A terrific read."--Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.

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