Oil and Ice : A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty - Peter Nichols

Oil and Ice

A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty

By: Peter Nichols

Paperback | 28 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.
"Oil and Ice" is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil industry-and presages the rise and fall of the second.

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