The Cruise of the “Cachalot” Round the World after Sperm Whales - Frank Bullen - 1899

The Cruise of the “Cachalot” Round the World after Sperm Whales – Frank Bullen – 1899

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Published by Smith and Elder, a second edition, London 1899 in the more upmarket binding with the striking gilt whale to the front board.

Large octavo, 380 pages with 7 pages of plates and a folding map.

Bullen, a homeless waif, went so sea at twelve years old. After six years he landed at New Bedford, Massachusetts where he secured a berth on the “Cachalot” a whaler that would be his home for the next three years. A ripping yarn of fact and fiction actually based on the authors experiences on the “Splendid” of New Bedford in whaling grounds off “the Solanders, Vau Vau and the Australian Gulf”.

Admired by Rudyard Kipling as the best Whaling Narrative.

Best Whaling Story according to Kipling

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The Cruise of the “Cachalot” Round the World after Sperm Whales – Frank Bullen – 1899

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