REMARKABLE OBSERVATIONS:
THE WHALING JOURNAL OF PELEG FOLGER 1751-1754
Edited by Thomas Philbrick, with a foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick
2006 Paperback

This journal, kept over a three-year period, tells of Peleg Folger’s adventures at sea.  It is not only a compelling portrait of an enthusiastic young Nantucket whaler, but also what Philbrick describes as “the best source we have on eighteenth-century whaling from Nantucket.”(84 pp)