Pursuing the Leviathan

Pursuing the LeviathanAuthor: Paul Magid ISBN: 9781682473788 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Year first published: 24 Sep 2025 Pages: 296 Format: Hardback Set in the golden age of whaling in the nineteenth century, this book brings to life the adventures of Benjamin Clough, best known for single handedly rescuing the ship Sharon from mutineers in 1842. Clough's heroism earned him a whaling command, which led to a whaling career that for a quarter century took him into the

her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery

Margrete Wood opens a portal to the Underworld

His warm and relaxed style reveals considerable linguistic ability and explains why the novelist Fanny Burney fondly called him a 'philosophical gossip' and why James Boswell declared

Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind

Aurora has a reputation as an expert crime sleuth in her small town

From the end of October through the middle of December 1941

The authors suggest that the cause of the tragedy lay in the interpretation of the differences that exist between the classic concepts of naval regulations and the stark realism of the unwritten code of destroyer doctrine to follow the leader

Yet behind her aristocratic face there was something hurt

allowing us to enter the mind of its troubled protagonist

Tomi fled to Vienna

controversial and brilliant

and moral reform are shown to be key issues in a variety of exchanges across North America