RITES & PASSAGES
Drawing on their diaries and ship logs, Creighton places sailors at the center of a social history that explores the ways in which the sea and the shore have intersected. It suggests that whaling life and culture were shaped by the American mainland as well as by the exigencies of ocean life.

Drawing on the evidence of ship logs and sailors' letters and journals, Creighton examines American whalemen during the industry's peak--the mid-nineteenth century.

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