Oil & Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty

Oil & Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty

304 pages
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Published: 21 Aug 2010
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ISBN: 9780143118367

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date: 28 September 2010

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"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read."
-Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea

In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home.

Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.