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OF WHALES AND MEN by R. B. Robertson

OF WHALES AND MEN

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Pub Date: April 26th, 1954
Publisher: Knopf

By now, the New Yorker serialization has given the virtues of this leviathan spread. It is the right-in-with-it-all account by a ship's doctor of a 1950 expedition in the modern whaling industry. Ships, whales, men, the antartic, the whole fleet and 47,000 miles of you-are-there- reporting, it won't take much hawking to sell.