“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”

 
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View fullsize Returns to the Top 29 Whaling Agents Source: “VC: An American History” by Tom Nicholas (2019)
View fullsize The Basic Organizational Structure of Whaling and Venture Capital Source: “VC: An American History” by Tom Nicholas (2019)
View fullsize The Distribution of Returns in Whaling and Venture Capital Source: “VC: An American History” by Tom Nicholas (2019)
View fullsize “Going on the Whale” wood-carving by Paul McCarthy (2005) made for the Nantucket Historical Association’s Whaling Museum
View fullsize The Whalebone Building at 161 Duane Street in Tribeca New York, New York