Leviathan: the history of whaling in America

Arrival and ascent, 1614-1774

John Smith goes whaling

"The king of waters, the sea-shouldering whale"

All along the coast

Nantucket, the "faraway land"

The whale's whale

Into "ye deep"

Candle wars

Glory days

Tragedy and triumph, 1775-1860

On the eve of revolution

Ruin

Up from the ashes

Knockdown

The golden age

"An enormous, filthy humbug"

Stories, songs, sex, and scrimshaw

Mutinies, murders, mayhem, and malevolent whales

Disaster and decay, 1861-1924

Stones in the harbor and fire on the water

From the earth

Ice crush

Fading away

Fin out.