Thinking big

Captivated by the sea, he takes epic challenge of telling history of American whaling

By David Mehegan

Globe Staff / June 30, 2007

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NEW BEDFORD -- From Homer to Herman Melville to Tom Clancy, stories of men and the sea have always been in fashion. In that broad category, one of the newer moneymaking niches is narrative history for the general reader. There was Dava Sobel's 1995 bestseller, "Longitude," about the invention of a clock that would work accurately at sea. Two years ... (Full article: 1187 words)