Whaling and Old Salem Author:Frances Diane Robotti "WHALING AND OLD SALEM accurately and vividly describes in stirring narrative early America's most romantic and picturesque industry, the terror of uncharted seas, the perils of rounding the Cape of Good Hope........ ; how they whaled, the rules of the game, the weapons, the heroism in victory and defeat, the conversion of blubber into oil, and ... more »interminable four-year whaling voyages" - from the dust cover.« less