An Arctic Whaling Diary
Author: George Comer
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournal of George Comer, master of the American whaling schooner Era.
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Author: George Comer
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournal of George Comer, master of the American whaling schooner Era.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 022604999X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis e-book features the complete text found in the print edition of Dangerous Work, without the illustrations or the facsimile reproductions of Conan Doyle's notebook pages. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, “came of age at 80 degrees north latitude.” Conan Doyle’s time in the Arctic provided powerful fuel for his growing ambitions as a writer. With a ghost story set in the Arctic wastes that he wrote shortly after his return, he established himself as a promising young writer. A subsequent magazine article laying out possible routes to the North Pole won him the respect of Arctic explorers. And he would call upon his shipboard experiences many times in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who was introduced in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet. Out of sight for more than a century was a diary that Conan Doyle kept while aboard the whaler. Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure makes this account available for the first time. With humor and grace, Conan Doyle provides a vivid account of a long-vanished way of life at sea. His careful detailing of the experience of arctic whaling is equal parts fascinating and alarming, revealing the dark workings of the later days of the British whaling industry. In addition to the transcript of the diary, the e-book contains two nonfiction pieces by Doyle about his experiences; and two of his tales inspired by the journey. To the end of his life, Conan Doyle would look back on this experience with awe: “You stand on the very brink of the unknown,” he declared, “and every duck that you shoot bears pebbles in its gizzard which come from a land which the maps know not. It was a strange and fascinating chapter of my life.” Only now can the legion of Conan Doyle fans read and enjoy that chapter.
Author: W. Gillies Ross
Publisher: Heritage
Published: 1984-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781487573430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComer's journal of the 1903-5 expedition gives a valuable and fascinating insight into the arctic whaling industry, the lives of the native people associated with it, and the beginnings of Canadian intervention in the area. Professor Ross enhances this information with an introduction, epilogue, and notes.
Author: Chelsey W. Sanger
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781906566777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.
Author: David Moore Lindsay
Publisher: Boston : D. Estes
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative of voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1884.
Author: Peter Nichols
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1101460954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.
Author: Dorothy Eber
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780773514218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOral histories of the 100 years of British and American whaling off the east coast of Canada and in Hudson Bay, as experienced by the native people who fed, clothed, and hunted with the whalers. Illustrated with modern drawings (some in color), and photographs from the period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Helen Frink
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931807968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeel the ocean wind in your face as you read an eyewitness account of 15 years of whaling in the Okhotsk and Arctic seas, culminating in the disastrous loss of most of the North Pacific fleet in 1871
Author: Harold Williams
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 434
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdventures of the Williams family are told first hand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.
Author: Bill Hess
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBill Hess -a noted photographer - began his association with the Inupiat Eskimos in 1982. Eventually, he got permission to accompany them on their historic whale hunt. This book is his record, in sensitive text and almost 200 stark images, of what he experienced. Hess explores Inupiat history and traditions juxtaposed against contemporary life, never shying away from the controversial aspects of this ancient trek. Gift of the Whale is a rare contribution to Native history.