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Children of the Light - The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback) Loot Price: R650
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Children of the Light - The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback): Everett Allen

Children of the Light - The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback)

Everett Allen

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Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industry and elevated it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously rescued without a single loss of human life. The damage to the fleet, however, was something from which New Bedford never fully recovered.

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Imprint: Commonwealth Editions
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2015
First published: June 2014
Authors: Everett Allen
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 978-1-938700-26-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
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LSN: 1-938700-26-0
Barcode: 9781938700262

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