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Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Category : Whales
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Author: A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
Publisher: New York : Appleton
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Category : Whalers (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Alpheus Hyatt VERRILL
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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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.
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher: London : T.F. Unwin
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Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039735
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Author: Doug Bock Clark
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781529374155
Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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At a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, The Last Whalers tells the inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a remote Indonesian volcanic island. They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. Journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived with the Lamalerans across three years, weaves together their stories. Clark details how the fragile dreams of one of the world's dwindling indigenous peoples are colliding with the upheavals of our rapidly transforming world, and delivers a group of unforgettable families.
