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    Category Whaling;
    Author Haley, Nelson Cole
    Title WHALE HUNT: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship 'Charles W Morgan' 1849-1853.
    Publishing Information London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1950.
    Description 1st UK Edition; 319 pages, 16 b/w illustrations, end paper maps. Blue covers, no dust jacket. Covers grubby and faded, shelf wear, spine faded, endpaper hinges previously reinforced with blue tape, contents clean. Synopsis:Haley ran away at the age of twelve. Returned to school in 1848/49 but within a few months went off to sea in the ship Charles W Morgan. The author wrote this at the time of his marriage in 1864 after he had retired from the sea and was living in Hawaii.
    Price £7.50
    Keywords pacific, arctic, arctic, whaling S1-Wha
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