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The Whalers

2021-10-15 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2021-10-15
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 036/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Whalers by : Patrick Pickens

Download or read book The Whalers written by Patrick Pickens. This book was released on 2021-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years after departing Hartford, Connecticut, for Raleigh, North Carolina, the NHL's Whalers continue to inspire passion among fans. As HartfordBusiness.com reported in 2015, "Whalers merchandise...still has a cult following not only among fans in Connecticut but around the country." But Whalers devotees aren't just clamoring for jerseys, hats and t-shirts. They're nostalgic for a team that had New England roots for nearly 25 years--in Boston, Springfield, and Hartford--and featured some of the greatest players in NHL history, including Gordie Howe (with his sons Mark and Marty), Bobby Hull, and Ron Francis. Pat Pickens’s book details the Whalers’ origin in Boston in 1972, the team’s WHA championship in 1973, the roof collapse of their home arena that indirectly led to their entrance to the NHL in 1979, their stunning NHL playoff-series win against the top-seeded Quebec Nordiques in 1986, the 1986-87 season when they claimed their first division championship, and their relocation south in 1997 as the Carolina Hurricanes. Pickens imagines a Stanley Cup delivered to hockey-crazed Hartford in 2006, when the Hurricanes instead brought it home to North Carolina. The book also explores the likelihood of an NHL team returning to the Nutmeg State.

We Are All Whalers

2021-11-12 Nature
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Release : 2021-11-12
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 04X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis We Are All Whalers by : Michael J. Moore

Download or read book We Are All Whalers written by Michael J. Moore. This book was released on 2021-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marine scientist Michael J. Moore says we are all whalers, but we don't have to be. Eating fish leads to North Atlantic right whales' entanglement and death. Buying goods made around the world requires global shipping routes, which do not accurately consider right whale breeding and feeding sites, leading to collision. To explain this, Moore conveys to readers scenes from over thirty years' worth of fieldwork, performing whale necropsies for animals stranded on beaches, working as an independent researcher alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and tracking injured pregnant whales to deliver antibiotics. Despite these sometimes disturbing experiences, Moore has written a hopeful book. He uses these stories to show we can change and to tell us how; the technology for rope-less fishing and tracking whale migrations already exist to protect both right whales and the people who depend on shipping and fishing for their livelihoods"--

The Last Whalers

2020-02-20 Indigenous peoples
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Release : 2020-02-20
Genre : Indigenous peoples
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Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Last Whalers by : Doug Bock Clark

Download or read book The Last Whalers written by Doug Bock Clark. This book was released on 2020-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Petticoat Whalers

2001 Seafaring life
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Release : 2001
Genre : Seafaring life
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Petticoat Whalers by : Joan Druett

Download or read book Petticoat Whalers written by Joan Druett. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

When the Whalers Were Up North

1996 Fiction
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Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 218/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When the Whalers Were Up North by : Dorothy Eber

Download or read book When the Whalers Were Up North written by Dorothy Eber. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral 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

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