The Real Story of the Whaler
Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 332
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Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herman Melville
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1616411635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-07-17
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0393066665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Doug Bock Clark
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781529374155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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.
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0007241798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.
Author: John R. Bockstoce
Publisher:
Published: 1995-03-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780295974477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the shores and waters where the great adventure was played out. His book is written with such mastery and vigor that we confidently greet it as the finest history yet written on any aspect of American whaling.
Author: Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Publisher: Sicpress.com
Published: 2013-04-06
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780615795942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.
Author: Matthew D. Plunkett
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0760359997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoston Whaler, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2018, is an American boating icon that has made boating reliable, fun, and above all, safe for the fisherman and pleasure-boater alike.
Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781584651598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.