Whaling Log of the Bark Triton (see below) Lucked into a pod, a shoal, a school (all designations for groups of whales), of whaling logs last week, and because I’ve been completely engrossed in reading them since then, I find that I’ve got nothing to blog about today. Except whaling logs. Whaling logs comprise a […] More >>
Archives for March 2011
Where Paper is King
Whaling Log of the Moctezuma, New Bedford. 1844-1846 (see below) About ten years ago a couple of enterprising promoters organized an antiquarian book fair at the Civic Center in Greenwich Connecticut. It sounded ideal – right off I-95, a short walk from the commuter rail station, and smack in the midst of a posh demographic. […] More >>
The Naval Chronicle, complete in 40 volumes. An immaculate set. More information at the end of the bloviation. So there I was, sitting at the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair trying to stay awake long enough to collate my splendid set of The Naval Chronicle, when a woman named Karin Bergasel came up and introduced herself. […] More >>
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After Amazon Has Eaten Everything Else
I always think I’m looking for maritime books, but often I wind up with pieces of paper. Here’s a particularly sweet one. I’ll let you guess what I like about it while I flap on for another 500 words, then I’ll let you in on the secret. A colleague handed it to me at the […] More >>