A.B.C. Whipple

Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple (1918- ) is a historian and author who has written largely about oceanic subjects since the mid-1950s. He was an executive editor at Time-Life Books [cite web |url=http://www.floodofmemories.com/lois.htm?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=450&width=718|title=Flood of Memories |author=Flood of Memories| accessdate=2006-09-26] , and worked as a reporter for Life during the 1950scite web|url =http://odin.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/rbooks/j_jones.html|title =When the Devil Came to Marshall|publisher=Marshall Advocate|accessdate =2008-02-23] .

elected list of works

*"Yankee Whalers in the South Seas" (1954)
*"Pirate: Rascals of the Spanish Main" (1957)
*"Tall Ships and Great Captains; a Narrative of Famous Sailing Ships Through the Ages and the Courageous Men Who Sailed, Fought, or Raced Them Across the Seas" (1960)
*"Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson" (1963)
*"The Fatal Gift of Beauty; the Final Years of Byron and Shelley" (1964)
*"All About Nelson" (1966)
*"The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd" (1970)
*"Fighting Sail" (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books)(1978)
*"Vintage Nantucket" (1978)
*"The Whalers" (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books) (1978)
*"The Whalers" (1979)
*"The Racing Yachts" (The Seafarers Series - Time Life Books) (1980)
*"The Clipper Ships" (1980)
*"The Mediterranean" (1981)
*"Storm (Planet Earth Series" - Time Life Books) (1982)
*"World War II in the Mediterranean" - (Time Life Books) (1982)
*"Restless Ocean" (Planet Earth Series - Time Life Books) (1983)
*"The Challenge" (1987)
*"To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines" (1991)
*"Critters: Adventures in Wildest Suburbia" (1994)

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