No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleshi

The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the i