CHASING THE WHALE: Extracts 60

Title: "The quantity of line withdrawn from the different boats engaged in the capture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles." * * * "Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles." SCORESBY.

10.875 x 15.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 24, 2016
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