Table of ContentsIntroduction /1A Note on Word Choice /5Preface /7Collected WritingsThe Mythical Voyage of the Octavius /11William Scoresby Junior: Whaler Extraordinaire /17Fire from Ice /20Baffin Fair /23Encounters with Inuit /28The Disastrous Season of 1835 /31The Loss of the William Torr /36The Landmark Rock at Durban Harbour /40Inuluapik and Penny Discover Cumberland Sound /46Over-Wintering: The First Winter in Cumberland Sound /52A Whaling Captain, a Discovery Ship, and the White House Desk /56The Diana , a Charnel House of Dead and Dying Men /60May Day on a Whaler /66Words from the Whalers /70Guests of the Whalers: Inuit in New England /86A Literary Icon in the Arctic: Arthur Conan Doyle /97The Windward : A Study Arctic Ship /103James Mutch: An Arctic Whalemen /111George Comer: The White Shaman /126Saved by Inuit, Rescued by Whalers /132The Murrays of Peterhead: A Whaling Family /139The Dead Horse Song /145David Cardno: At Home in Cumberland Sound /148The Toll of the Arctic /158Captain George Cleveland: Whaler and Trader /163William Duval: Sivutiksaq of Cumberland Sound /169The Burning of the Easonian : The Last Whaler /175The Loss of the Albert /179Acknowledgements /183.
In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling