02306cam a2200361 i 4500 241044664 TxAuBib 20150817120000.0 130918s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013037519 9781410465207 hardcover 1410465209 hardcover (OCoLC)858672883 TxAuBib rda Clark, Janice, 1954- The Rathbones / Janice Clark. Large print edition. Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2013. 601 pages (lage print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print peer picks Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-597). Moses, the revered patriarch of the Rathbone family, possessed an otherworldly instinct for spotting the whale. But years of bad decisions by the heirs to his fortune have whittled his formerly robust family down to just one surviving member: a young girl, left to live in the broken-down ancestral mansion that at one time had glowed golden with the spoils of the hunt. Mercy, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the dynasty of New England whalers, has been lost at sea for seven years -- ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Naiwayonk, Connecticut. Mercy's memories of her father and of the time before he left grow dimmer each day, and she spends most of her time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive Uncle Mordecai, who teaches her the secrets of Greek history and navigation through his collection of moldering books. But when a strange, violent visitor turns up one night on the widow's walk, Mercy and Mordecai are forced to flee the house and set sail on a journey that will bring them deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family. 20150817. Young women Fiction. Families Fiction. Whaling New England Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print peer picks.