In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. "Oil and Ice" is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.
Chapter 2. “The Dearest Place in All New England”
Chapter 3. A Nursery and a Kindergarten
Chapter 4. The Crucible of Deviancy
Chapter 6. The Nantucket Paradigm
Chapter 9. Neither Land nor Sea nor Air
Chapter 10. The Profits of Asceticism
Chapter 11. The Ships and the Men
Chapter 12. Old Lights and New
Chapter 15. “Our Dreadful Situation”
Chapter 18. “How Hard It Is to Rise, When You’re Really, Truly Down”