{"product_id":"the-charles-w-morgan-the-worlds-last-wooden-whaleship-9781493084432","title":"The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs America's oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, the \u003ci\u003eCharles W. Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e has a complex story to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElaborating on earlier volumes on the ship's history at Mystic Seaport Museum, this new book offers an expanded account, chronicling the ship's construction and launch in 1841 through its Thirty-Eighth Voyage in 2014--the first time the \u003ci\u003eMorgan\u003c\/i\u003e had been sailed in more than ninety years--and its continuing role today as an historic icon and the Museum's flagship vessel. Chapters paint a picture of how whaling developed in Europe and the ways New England colonists adopted it as a profitable venture, and then, through the ship's own story, proceed to sketch the evolution of America's relationship with nature--and the whale, specifically--and with the many peoples of the world who were encountered by, or served aboard, a whaleship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a National Historic Landmark--one that reflects our changing relationship with the natural world and with the diverse populations of the globe through two centuries of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493084432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184","brand":"Andrew W. German","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44655397634229,"sku":"9781493084432","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6bc3de29-3bea-4bc6-be78-01ad843677e2.jpg?v=1727192229","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-charles-w-morgan-the-worlds-last-wooden-whaleship-9781493084432","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}