Geo,
I'm going to try my hand at Hugill's unabridged book, first! That may never happen until I learn how to pronounce Norwegian and Dutch and the like :)

If I continue, I may do Harlow (I have already done a few, in drawing contrasts to Hugill's) because I'm really taken by the uniqueness of that book which (in the first part) does not appear to be derivative of others. I am quite interested in whaling ballads, however I don't think Huntington's book merits a systematic treatment.

Gibb