Over 200 vintage engravings, drawings and photographs depict a magnificent fleet of barks, brigs, cutters and other whaling vessels, including interior views and interesting details. You'll also find photographs and prints of actual whaling implements (blubber forks, harpoons, lances, cutting spades, etc.), whaling guns, boating implements, and other tools and equipment of the whalers of yesteryear. Additional pictorial highlights include a 1621 engraving of Mass being celebrated on the back of a whale; a wood engraving of the ship "Maria" of New Bedford built in 1782 (oldest whaler in the U.S. in 1853); a Currier and Ives lithograph of a sperm whale, "In a Flurry," and a revealing series of printings documenting the whaler "Charles W. Morgan" of New Bedford. Paper bound, 288 pages, 207 black-and-white illustrations, priced at just -$12.95.