British-born Ivan Sanderson began writing about zoology and natural history in Animal Treasure in 1935, and has done several books since, many of which he has illustrated himself. His most recent work is Follow the Whale (Little, Brown, 1956).
For further reading: The Sea Hunters , by Edouard A. Starckpole (Lippincott, 1955;; Whaling Wives , by E. M. Whiting and H. B. Hough (Houghton Mifflin, 1953); Yankee Whalers in the South Seas , by A. B. C. Whipple (Doubleday, 1954).