The Young Ice Whalers
Winthrop Packard
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 | Read by Cbteddy |
Bound for the Arctic | 29:23 | Read by Cbteddy |
Bucking Ice in Bering Sea | 31:58 | Read by Cbteddy |
The Little Men of the Diomedes | 34:00 | Read by Claudia Peri |
When the Ice Came In | 31:30 | Read by artemisaro |
Winter Life and Innuit Friends | 41:10 | Read by Alex J |
The Ghost Wolves of the Nunatak | 27:04 | Read by Charlie Kingfisher |
Whaling in Earnest | 43:59 | Read by Richard Vogel |
In the Enemy’s Power | 40:25 | Read by Richard Vogel |
“The Feast of the Old Seal’s Head” | 33:10 | Read by Matthew Westra |
“The Village Where No One Lives” | 41:23 | Read by prajak |
In The Heart of Blizzards | 36:09 | Read by Ari Friedland |
The Meeting of Tribes | 30:06 | Read by Ari Friedland |
Staking out a Fortune | 31:02 | Read by Melissa Griffin |
Home Again | 17:49 | Read by Melissa Griffin |