Selected Bibliography

Bodfish, Captain Harston H. Chasing the Bowhead Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936.

Boardman, Charles Hawes. Whaling. New York: Doubleday, 1924.

Chrisp, Peter. The Whalers. New York: Thompson Learning,1995.

Gourley, Catherine. Hunting Neptune's Giants. Millbrook Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1995.

Murphy, Jim. Gone A-Whaling. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.

O'Hara Megan (ed.). A Whaling Captain's Daughter: The Diary of Laura Jernegan 1868-1871. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2000.

Verrill, A. Hyatt. The Real Story of the Whaler. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1916

On the Water - Fishing for a Living, 1840-1920: Commercial Fishers: Whaling. Smithsonian Museum of American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibition/3_7.html.

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