Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship by Ellie Mathews

Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship

Ellie Mathews

353 pages first pub 2003 (view editions)

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In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend two years on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to Antarctica. During the voyage, Murphy kept a journal, pa...

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