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1 online resource |
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text file rda |
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Cover; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Epigraph; A Visitor; A Minister of the Methodist Church; Voices Whisper; A Good Fish Is Tom; Non-appearance of Whales; Fastidious Diet of Whale Men; Commencement of Whaling Season, 1908; A Most Prepossessing Young Lady; The Bandages; The Old Gray Kangaroo; An Unhappy Experience; Tom Raises the Alarm; Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with a Fish Hook?; The Trying-out; Excursion to Boyd Tower; The First Black Whale of the Season; A Celebration; Sitting Tight; The Perils of Whaling; Importance of Preserving Memories; The Whale Men Return |
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Some Words About My FatherA Missing Clergyman; The Ungraspable Phantom of Life; A Visit from Mr. Crowther; A Sermon Interrupted; The Boat-Breaker; The Sermon Notes; Repercussions; The Trees They Do Grow High; Having Gone to Be Wasted in Battle; The Flukes; Interesting Beliefs of the Aborigines; An Unexpected Revelation; Antecedents; Unpleasant Encounter with the Price-Cutter; Voices Whisper; An Intensely Exciting Chase; A Lonely Killer, He; Uncle Aleck Takes the Cure; Louisa; The Plain and Fancy Dress Ball; When to Marry; If, When Washing Dishes; A Letter from Louisa; The Silverware in Situ |
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The Rawleigh's Ointment ManThe Boat Trip Home; Author's Note; About the Author; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
An impassioned, charming, and hilarious debut novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, during one of the harshest whaling seasons in history. When the eldest daughter of a whaling family in New South Wales sets out to write about the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells reveals itself to be far larger than she ever expected. As her family struggles to survive, and as she attempts to navigate sibling rivalries and all-consuming first love, nineteen-year-old Mary will soon discover a shocking side to these men who hunt the seas, and the truth of her own place among them. Swinging from Mary's own hopes and disappointments to the challenges that have beset her family's whaling operation, RUSH OH! is also a celebration of an extraordinary episode in history, when man and beast formed a unique, heartwarming allegiance. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Whaling -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction. |
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Whaling. |
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Australia. |
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Downloadable e-Books.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780316343848 : $75.00 |
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0316343846 : $75.00 |
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