Pursuing the Leviathan - Magid, Paul
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Based primarily on original sources and contemporary accounts, this book is an account of the life and times of Benjamin Clough. Set in the golden age of whaling, the book follows him from the time he first went to sea in 1835 as a teenager to his retirement from whaling in 1867 as a veteran whaling captain and his life thereafter. It crosses the world's oceans, providing the reader with an understanding of whaling from a first-hand perspective over a thirty-year period from the South Atlantic to the northern Pacific and then on into the Arctic Ocean. It is a gritty portrayal of the hardships,…mehr

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Based primarily on original sources and contemporary accounts, this book is an account of the life and times of Benjamin Clough. Set in the golden age of whaling, the book follows him from the time he first went to sea in 1835 as a teenager to his retirement from whaling in 1867 as a veteran whaling captain and his life thereafter. It crosses the world's oceans, providing the reader with an understanding of whaling from a first-hand perspective over a thirty-year period from the South Atlantic to the northern Pacific and then on into the Arctic Ocean. It is a gritty portrayal of the hardships, dangers, and harsh working conditions endured by whalers during this period. Clough's life ashore during the intervals between voyages and after retiring from the sea featured its own unique experiences, offering a window into nineteenth-century life in Martha's Vineyard.
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Paul Magrid, an attorney, military veteran, and former Peace Corps volunteer, has devoted himself to research and writing since his retirement in 1999. After earning a master’s degree in writing from the Krieger School of Arts and Science at Johns Hopkins University, he began working on the first of a three-volume biography of Maj. Gen. George Crook, a Corps commander in the Civil War and an important military leader during the Indian Wars. His first book on Crook won the Western Writers of America Spur award for best biography of a Western figure, while the other two were finalists for the same award. Magid and his wife reside on Martha’s Vineyard.