The Boy Whaleman
Author:
George F. Tucker
Illustrator:
George Avison
Publication:
1924 by Little, Brown & Company
Genre:
Fiction
Pages:
283
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The Boy Whaleman by George Fox Tucker
Reviewed by Sherry Early
The book is more of a travelog than a story, although travel is not quite the word for the experience of a sailor who took ship on a whaler. More appropriate terms come to mind: hard work, danger, adventure, or “stink, grease, and backache” as the description of a whaleman’s work went at the time. The book takes place in the early 1860’s as the boy Homer Bleechly, age fifteen, takes ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts on the whaler, Seabird. He will be eighteen and a man by the time he returns to his home in New Bedford.
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