Of Whales Men Author:R. B. Robertson If you're writing a book about a whaling expedition, said my good friend the senior whaling inspector, don't tell the exact truth. If you do, nobody ashore will believe you, and nobody in the whaling world will recognize you as a whaleman; for no whaleman author ever has told the exact truth since Herman Melville set the standard of whal... more »ing mendacity. I did not agree with the inspector, and when I started on this book, it was my intention to report the incidents of the whaling expedition I had the good fortune to accompany, and to describe the personalities of those I met in the whaling industry, with an accuracy and veracity as near the standard set by a good journalist as it is possible for an amateur to achieve.« less