This picture book tells a candid yarn of old-time Yankee whaling as learned by a participant. Most of the photographs were made by the author in the early 20th century. The negatives were developed on board ship in sea water. At the date of this voyage, the craft and methods of whaleships under canvas had seen almost no change during a century. But Yankee crews had vanished. Our men were mostly Cape Verders and West Indians...