Young Ice Whalers
Winthrop Packard
Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland Ways, was also a Member Corwin exploring expedition to Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic, 1900.
Against the background, comes this riveting story of the men who ventured into this hazardous territory aboard the Whaling Bark Bowhead.
- Summary by Larry Wilson (8 hr 15 min)
Chapters
A Change in Life’s Plans | 26:36 |
Bound for the Arctic | 29:23 |
Bucking Ice in Bering Sea | 31:58 |
The Little Men of the Diomedes | 34:00 |
When the Ice Came In | 31:30 |
Winter Life and Innuit Friends | 41:10 |
The Ghost Wolves of the Nunatak | 27:04 |
Whaling in Earnest | 43:59 |
In the Enemy’s Power | 40:25 |
“The Feast of the Old Seal’s Head” | 33:10 |
“The Village Where No One Lives” | 41:23 |
In The Heart of Blizzards | 36:09 |
The Meeting of Tribes | 30:06 |
Staking out a Fortune | 31:02 |
Home Again | 17:49 |