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Paperback. Pub Date :2010-9-1 Pages: 294 Publisher: Penguin Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevanthistorical narrative ... A terrific read.-Nathaniel Philbrick. author of In The Heart of theSea In 1871. an entire fleet of whaling ships wascaught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed Though few lives werelost. the damage would forever shape one of Americas mostdistinctive commodities:. oil.Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season thatilluminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall ofAmericas first oil industry -and presages the rise and fall of thesecond.

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Peter Nichols, in addition to his sailing adventures, has worked in the film business as a screenwriter, propmaker, and ship-wrangler. He lives in Northern California.

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