Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin
In Leviathan, Eric Jay Dolin recounts the dramatic tales of American whaling, telling stories of whalemen and these great creatures with grandeur and pathos. The magisterial history encompasses the three-hundred-year saga of American whaling, capturing the absorbing social an economic history of the nation through the triumphs and travails of the great American industry.
