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Review: Brian Fagan on the last of the whalers

Review: Brian Fagan on the last of the whalers

Ann Kjellberg
Dec 19, 2018
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From the Bequia Whalers and Maritime Museum, Port Elizabeth, Bequia, St. Vincent

The famed British diplomat and adventure writer John Buchan concluded his 1936 novel The Island of Sheep on a northern island where the heroes were rescued by the arrival of “an army of men,” “shaggy and foul with blood,” fresh from “the grind.” I first read this stirring ta…

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