[The Cruise of the Cachalot] is immense--there is no other word.
THE LONDON TIMES.
The Cruise of the Cachalot is a book which cannot but fascinate all lovers of the sea, and all who can appreciate a masterly presentation of its wonder and its mystery, its terrors and its trials, its humours and its tragedies.
Bullen has a splendid subject, and be handles it with the pen of a master...
Mr.
It is THIS one.
If you wish to genuinely understand the world of the 19th Century whaler, the book to read is not Moby Dick, or some other moby-clone.
Making it all the more remarkable is that every bit of it is based on first-hand experience, and delivered with a unique and engaging mixture of literary simplicity and nautical authority.
The the level of detail presented in this book is truly astonishing.
As a result, he spent the last years of his life writing books and lecturing in an attempt to better the health, safety and living conditions of those men.
But, his first love was always the sea; and his primary respect was always for the common seaman.
In 1883 he became a clerk in the relatively new British Meteorological Office where he made a sufficient name for himself to eventually become a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.
Over the years he travelled the world while serving in every capacity from ship\'s boy to first mate.
In 1869, at age 12, Frank Bullen went to sea.
First published in 1897, it is the first whaling account written from the standpoint of an accomplished seaman, by an accomplished seaman.
RUDYARD KIPLING The Cruise of the Cachalot is the Story of a ship--a South Sea whaler--and the men who sailed on her.
I\'ve never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery; nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and at the same time given such real and new sea pictures. [The Cruise of the Cachalot] is immense--there is no other word
