Reviews of Books on Whaling & Scrimshaw Click on the Title to see selection

Petticoat Whalers - Joan Druett

Gone A-whaling - Jim Murphy

Greasy Luck - Gordon Grant

Incidents of a Whaling Voyage - Francis A. Olmstead

Of Whales and Men - R. B. Robertson

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders - E. Norman Flayderman

The Whales - A. B. C. Whipple

Pacific Square-Riggers - Jim Gibbs

John F. Kennedy ; Scrimshaw Collector - Clare Barnes, Jr.

4 Years A-whaling - Philip Purrington

Salted Tories - Lloyd C. M. Hare

Nautical Antiques - Robert W. D. Ball

Man and the Sea - Joan A. Gomes Vieira

The Yankee Whaler - Clifford W. Ashley

The Scrimshander - William Gilkerson

Harpooned - Bill Spence

Men and Whales - Richard Ellis

Scrimshaw - Paszkiewicz and Schroeder

The Scrimshaw Connection - Bob Engnath

The Second Scrimshaw Connection - Bob Engnath

Contemporary Scrimshaw - Eva Halat

Children of the Light (The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet) - Everett S. Allen

All Hands Aboard Scrimshawing - Marius Barbeau

In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

ONE WHALING FAMILY Edited by Harold Williams

Leviathan - A History of Whaling In America by Eric Jay Dolin

Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists by Stuart M. Frank

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