"Homeward Bound": a whaler under full sail, 1861
About it
A whale ship under all sail, bound for home at the end of a voyage of three or four years. The Globe’s journal of 1850 records the same moment’s longing: “O: when will this voyage have an end.”
- Related to
- Richard Blackmer Holbrook
- Credit
- Woodcut in J. D. Jones ("A Roving Printer"), *Life and Adventure in the South Pacific* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861). Via the Internet Archive (lifeadventureins00jonerich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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