Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition)

Travel

MURPHY, Robert Cushman

Polar Regions

Time-Life-Books

<p>Looking For Grace is one of those rare books that are published to the applause and admiration of critics and then unaccountably sink out of sight. It deserves a far better fate. Logbook is the fascinating chronicle, in diary form, of a voyage of one of the last Yankee whaleships in the twilight days of sail. More than that, it is an adventure story, a travelogue, a naturalist's notebook and a charming love story all rolled into one - written, it must be added, by a man whose profession is not writing, although he ha written scientific works. Robert Cushman Murphy is a naturalist - one of the world's great authorities on birds. During one of these expeditions Murphy begins to detail the life, sounds, sights, adversities, struggles, adventure, and survival of the whalers on the whaleship Daisy. Daisy herself, being an out of date vessel, takes on a life of her own. Combined with touching notes penned to his recent bride this book offers something for everyone.</p>

The volume is Robert Cushman Murphy's "celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that ispired him; a chronicle of mankind's destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways."

Fish-Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,Volume 58

History

Australia & Oceania

The American Philosophical Society Press

Fish-Shape Paumanok

Reference

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Notes On The Sea Elephant, Mirounga Leonina (linné)

Legare Street Press

Oceanic Birds Of South America, Volume I and II, Two Volumes

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

American Museum of Natural History

<p>This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.</p>

Notes On The Sea Elephant, Mirounga Leonina: Linne (1914)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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PUTNAM

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