One whaling family /
edited by Harold Williams.
- 401 pages : illustrations, color map (on lining papers) portraits ; 22 cm
The voyage of the Florida, 1858-1861, from the journal of Eliza Azelia Williams. -- The destruction of the whaling fleet in the Arctic Ocean in 1871; address by William Fish Williams. -- The voyage of the Florence: 1873-1874, from a manuscript by William Fish Williams.
The adventures of the Williams family are told firsthand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.