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Murphy, Jim

The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship

190 pp. | Scholastic | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-439-07814-8 $10.95
(3) 4-6 My Name Is America series. A fourteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco records his experiences in 1874 on the ship The Florence. Brian describes life at sea and presents a vividly detailed account of whaling as the ship sails the Pacific, stops in Hawaii, and is eventually abandoned in the icy waters of Alaska. An informational note and some archival images put this fictional account into historical perspective.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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