Author: Michael F. Tillman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Includes papers on methods of data collection and assessment, interpretation of historic logbooks and journals, historic whaling data for the western Arctic bowhead whale population, etc.
Historical Whaling Records
Author: Michael F. Tillman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Includes papers on methods of data collection and assessment, interpretation of historic logbooks and journals, historic whaling data for the western Arctic bowhead whale population, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Includes papers on methods of data collection and assessment, interpretation of historic logbooks and journals, historic whaling data for the western Arctic bowhead whale population, etc.
Scottish Arctic Whaling
Author: Chelsey W. Sanger
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN: 9781906566777
Category : Whalers (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Describes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN: 9781906566777
Category : Whalers (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Describes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.
Vessels and Voyages. A Book for Boys
Author: George (Uncle.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Whales, Ice, and Men
Author: John R. Bockstoce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295974477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the shores and waters where the great adventure was played out. His book is written with such mastery and vigor that we confidently greet it as the finest history yet written on any aspect of American whaling.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295974477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the shores and waters where the great adventure was played out. His book is written with such mastery and vigor that we confidently greet it as the finest history yet written on any aspect of American whaling.
The Real Story of the Whaler
Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Safely Moored at Last
Author: Christine A. Arato
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius Robustus
Author: Mary Lou Jones
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080923720
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080923720
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Gray Whale: Eschrichtius robustus provides an introduction to the understanding of Eschrichtius robustus or the gray whale. This book explores the life processes, reproduction, and growth of large cetacean populations. Organized into four parts encompassing 25 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the gray whale evolution, fossils, and subfossil remains, range, and systematics in historical times. This text then presents the historical of gray whale exploitation and the economic importance of these whales to humans. Other chapters consider the gray whale migration, abundance, and seasonal distribution in the wake of the California population's recovery from depletion. This book discusses as well the methods used in shore-based censuses during migration and in aerial surveys of gray whales taken on their winter grounds. The final chapter deals with some innovative approaches to the study of free-ranging cetaceans. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, and naturalists.
History Of The American Whale Fishery From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876
Author: Alexander Starbuck
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354414626
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354414626
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Monthly Report
Author: Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description