RKS Literature: Yankee Whalers as Sea Peasants (Herman Melville)

 “To be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there is too apt to be sort of a shyness between them; for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Yankee Whalers as Sea Peasants (Herman Melville)”