Author: Christine A. Arato
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Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Christina Connett
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ISBN: 9780997516142
Category : Knots and splices
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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"The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) celebrates the work of the master knot tyer, maritime artist, historian, and author Clifford W. Ashley in a monumental exhibition in two of the Museum's most prestigious galleries. The exhibition premieres the recent gift to the Museum of Ashley's private knot collection alongside interpretive material from the Museum's permanent holdings as well as the artist's paintings, prints, and work by other knot tyers and artists Ashley inspired." -- page 11

Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.

Author: P. H. Mendall
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Christine A. Arato
Publisher:
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Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Donald Warrin
Publisher: Tagus Press
ISBN: 9781933227283
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Fascinating history of the American whaling industry highlighting the role of its Portuguese participants.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 912

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Author: Robert Lloyd Webb
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.

Author: David L. Hanlon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824883918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.