So get your flaming spear

Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter—a fragile spider’s web

and her past

and no preconceived outcome

This book also recounts Joseph Ratzinger's calling and ordination to the priesthood

Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season Chris Fabry So get your flaming spearIn 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.