@article{343556, recid = {343556}, author = {Nichols, Peter,}, title = {Oil and ice : a story of Arctic disaster and the rise and fall of America's last whaling dynasty /}, publisher = {Penguin Books,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {294 p. :}, year = {2010}, note = {"Previously published as Final voyage."}, abstract = {In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/343556}, }