ABoston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 200 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic Histor "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." --Nathaniel Philbrick
ABoston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 200 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman ...
Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Awar Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Plac "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." Los Angeles Times
Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Awar Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Cr...