John Tabor complains about everything on his first whaling voyage until he meets a strange old man who takes him on an extraordinary journey.

John TAbor complains about everything on his first whaling voyage until he meets a strange old man who takes him on an extraordinary journey.

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unf