Alexander R. Brash, author of "A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific." Brash's great-great grandfather undertook a whaling expedition in the 1840s after suffering some crushing personal reversals - and wrote a journal of what he experienced that Brash utilized as the basis for this book. Brash also did a great deal of research into the whaling industry and its history.