|aYou wouldn't want to sail on a 19th-century whaling ship! : |bgrisly tasks you'd rather not do / |cwritten by Peter Cook ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya
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|aNew York : |bFranklin Watts, |c2004
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|a32 p. : |bcol ill., col map ; |c25 cm.
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|aNickersonThomas|d1805-1883--Travel--Pacific Ocean--Juvenile literature
Describes the inglorious life of a boy from Nantucket who in 1819 joins the crew of a whaling ship, including freezing trips to the Arctic, carving scrimshaw, boiling whales for oil, and sinking ships.