Chasing the Bowhead.
Bodfish, Captain Hartson.
Harvard University Press, ( 1936), Cambridge, MA
25.5 cm. ix, 281 pp. b/w plates.
Price: $100
Arctic whaling as told by one of its leading 20th century practitioners, Bodfish being one of the first to purposely winter in the north. Three-line, dated inscription by Bodfish. Arctic Bib. 1791. Jenkins p. 81. Very good -fine condition in chipped and sunned dust jacket.
Return to Maritime List 299 – “Due Diligence”