Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, to Which Are Added Observations on the Scenery, Manners and Customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and

A reprint of the original 1841 edition by D. Appleton & Co. The first significant book about the whaling industry. Experiences, journal entries, and sketches by Olmsted during a whaling voyage that took him across the Atlantic to the Azores, to the South American coast, the Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, across the South Pacific and around the Horn to Brazil, and back home again almost a year and one half later.