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Young Ice Whalers

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