Oil and Ice

<b>Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read. <br> -Nathaniel Philbrick author of <i>In The Heart of the Sea</i> </b> <p/> In 1871 America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously 1218 men women and children survived but the disaster was catastrophic at home. <p/> <i>Oil and Ice</i> is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy and the fate of today's petroleum industry.