The Voyage of the F.H. Moore and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts

<p> In 1873 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted <I>F.H. Moore</I>--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook.</p><p> Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: <I>Incidents of a Whaling Voyage</I> by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841); <I>Etchings of a Whaling Cruise</I> by J. Ross Browne (1846) an expose of the whaling industry; and <I>The Gam: Being a Group of Whaling Stories</I> by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins (1899) a personal story of nearly an entire life at sea. The four accounts open the 19th century world of whaling to modern readers in a realistic and unromantic way.</p>