You wouldn't want to sail on a 19th-century whaling ship! : grisly tasks you'd rather not do / written by Peter Cook ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya.
Details what life was like for sailors on whaling ships during the nineteenth century, including the duties of the crew, the whaling ship the Essex, how whales were processed, and how people survived a shipwreck or being lost at sea.