Whaling North And South

Author : Frank Vigor Morley
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling North and South written by Frank Vigor Morley and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1926 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of arctic whaling and author's experiences as photographer with the Southern Whaling and Sealing Co. in Falkland Islands Dependencies, 1923-25.

Author : Frank Vigor Morley
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling North and South written by Frank Vigor Morley and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1926 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of arctic whaling and author's experiences as photographer with the Southern Whaling and Sealing Co. in Falkland Islands Dependencies, 1923-25.

Author : Marcus B. Simpson
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling on the North Carolina Coast written by Marcus B. Simpson and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 1990 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as an award-winning article in the North Carolina Historical Review, this fascinating study traces the history of whaling in the state from the seventeenth century until World War I. Includes a number of colorful accounts of local whaling around Shackleford Banks in the latter half of the nineteenth century and a vivid description of the catch of the "Mayflower," North Carolina's best-known whale.

Author : Scott D. Kraus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023277
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Whale written by Scott D. Kraus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished by the sight of 25 right whales. Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic right whale was extinct or nearly so. The sightings electrified the research community, spurring a quarter century of exploration, which is documented here.

Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824892135
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across Species and Cultures written by Ryan Tucker Jones and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean’s history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.

Author : Andrea Kirkpatrick
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039158641
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Game of Chance written by Andrea Kirkpatrick and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s almost impossible to imagine spending eight months at sea “without once putting foot on land.” But that’s exactly what whalers experienced when playing the dangerous “game of chance,” hunting down leviathans for oil and bone—all for a “lay,” or share, of the vessel’s spoils. A Game of Chance is the first comprehensive, in-depth study of British North American South Seas whaling. Author Andrea Kirkpatrick takes readers on a series of fascinating and sometimes fantastical journeys as she chronicles in great detail the story of a largely forgotten industry that operated out of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports from the 1760s to 1850. Kirkpatrick plumbed the depths of myriad logbooks and journals to piece together the often-murky tales of an astonishing number of ships. In this treatise covering a century of whaling, she shares details such as ownership, tonnage, voyages, captains’ pedigrees, and names of crewmen, including nascent whaler Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Hoping for “greasy luck,” the men who manned these ships found both camaraderie and competition as they hunted the world’s whaling grounds from Cape Horn to Kamchatka, many circumnavigating the globe during their careers. They battled squalls and high seas, scurvy and venereal disease, heartbreak and homesickness—and sometimes each other. Many never returned home, their bodies committed to the deep or buried on foreign land. Written in two parts—landward and seaward—Kirkpatrick’s clear prose and adoption of whaling lingua franca brings this high-risk venture to the fore with authenticity, newly revealed facts, and remarkable stories of adventure.

Author : Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039735
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Modern Whaling written by Johan Nicolay Tønnessen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Charles Boardman Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling written by Charles Boardman Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherein are discussed the first whalemen of whom we have record; the growth of the European whaling industry, and of its offspring, the American whaling industry; primitive whaling among the savages of North America; the various manners and means of taking whales in all parts of the world and in all time of its history; the extraordinary adventures and mishaps that have befallen whalemen the seas over; the economic and social conditions that led to the rise of whaling and hastened its decline; and, in conclusion, the present state of the once flourishing and lucrative industry.

Author : George (Uncle.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vessels and Voyages. A Book for Boys written by George (Uncle.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: