whaleship

Passing from whaleship to whaleship, he eventually turned up at Point Barrow in the summer of 1 88o.

The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

The harpooner and I wept with him, and swore that all three of us would ship on the whaleship Bonanza, win a big pay-day, and, still together, make a pilgrimage to Edinburgh and lay our store of money in the dear lady's lap.

Chapter 6 2010

Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, bêche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.

THE WHALE TOOTH 2010

Anapuni and I were only commoners, as were all of us kanakas and wahines who were at the drinking with the common sailors and whaleship men from before the mast.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

New Bedford born, twenty years of age, by virtue of his driving strength and ability he had served as second mate on the lost whaleship.

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

"I remember the whaleship Essex," the Ancient Mariner told Dag

CHAPTER XII 2010

Leastwise, thirty years ago, when I was in Honolulu, I met a man, an old geezer, who claimed he'd been a harpooner on a whaleship sunk by a whale off the coast of South America.

CHAPTER XII 2010

But each of those visits—to the forecastle of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, to a graveyard overlooking the town of Plymouth, Mass., to a dusty ravine leading to the Little Bighorn River—has provided at least one unexpected detail the tinier and quirkier the better that helped to bring the place to life on the page.

Conjuring Up a Sense of Place Nathaniel Philbrick 2011

And Boki was angry, and prepared to make war, and gathered his fighting men, with a dozen whaleship deserters and five brass six-pounders, out at Waikiki --

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010