The epic story of Yankees and whales, famed in legend and literature, has passed irrevocably into history. With the giant sea mammals now a species threatened with extinction, the last remnant of American whaling was brought to an end on 15th December 1971, by a government prohibition. This book is a reassessment of the whaling era, not only in terms of its part in man's age-old struggle against the sea, but of the growth and decline of an industry which helped to shape the nation...