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Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet by Evan S. Allen

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Monday, June 2 through Friday, June 13, 2014. Read by Karl Schmidt.

32 Ships were trapped in the ice of Alaska, a horror in the history of whaling. This is a story of disaster and rescue; of the Quaker community of Plymouth Colony and their rise and fall.

(Parnassus ISBN: 0940160234)

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