Hunting The Desert Whale

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting the Desert Whale written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular mystery writer and creator of the Perry Mason series tells of his own exciting adventures hunting the Pacific gray whale off Baja California. ().

Author : Deke Castleman
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1935396595
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whale Hunt in the Desert written by Deke Castleman and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book that examines the lifestyles and motivations of the world’s biggest gamblers, the whales, and how the casinos harpoon and beach them. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. The third edition includes an extensive update about Las Vegas, the "greening" of gambling, the nightclub and day club scenes, the evolution of the host position, and much more--all in the words of superhost Steve Cyr.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting the Desert Whale written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular mystery writer and creator of the Perry Mason series tells of his own exciting adventures hunting the Pacific gray whale off Baja California. ().

Author : Lori Polydoros
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515762572
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anacondas written by Lori Polydoros and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anacondas coil their massive bodies around animals, squeezing them to death. Discover more about this mighty predator and its role in a healthy ecosystem.

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618777099
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling Season written by Peter Lourie and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the work of John Craighead George, an Arctic whale scientist, as he studies the bowhead whale and works with the indigenous people of Alaska to better understand the history of the animal.

Author : Deke Castleman
Publisher : Huntington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929712918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whale Hunt in the Desert written by Deke Castleman and published by Huntington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-1990s Las Vegas, casino marketing executives were all cut from the same cloth; sharply-dressed and smooth-talking with street-savvy. They rose through the ranks of operations -- dealer, floor-man, pit boss, shift boss and casino manager. When it was time to leave the trenches, they went "upstairs" into the executive offices, where they hosted a handful of established players according to the unwritten rules of old-school Vegas. Then Steve Cyr showed up.

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684864347
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whale Hunt written by Robert Sullivan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the gray whale off the endangered list, the Makah Indians decide to resurrect the skills of their ancestors and return to the hunt amidst tribal infighting and animal rights activists.

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066665
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290437158
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera; a Naturalist's Account of the Modern Shore-Whaling Industry, of Whales and Their Habits, and of Hunting Experiences written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : E. T. Weingarten
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482404966
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting with Killer Whales written by E. T. Weingarten and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer whales are actually a kind of dolphin. They got their name when sailors witnessed some killing a whale long ago. Despite their deadly name, people have little to fear from these sea mammals. However, fish, seals, walruses, and even other killer whales have to watch out. These specially camouflaged creatures are huge and often hungry. Readers of this fact-packed book will learn how killer whales hunt in groups called pods, use echolocation to find their way, and why they're often called the "wolves of the ocean."