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Author : John R. Bockstoce
Release : 1978-07-01
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Book Synopsis Whales, Ice and Men by : John R. Bockstoce
Download or read book Whales, Ice and Men written by John R. Bockstoce. This book was released on 1978-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Bockstoce
Release : 1995-03-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Whales, Ice, and Men by : John R. Bockstoce
Download or read book Whales, Ice, and Men written by John R. Bockstoce. This book was released on 1995-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 : Richard Ellis
Release : 1992
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Men and Whales by : Richard Ellis
Download or read book Men and Whales written by Richard Ellis. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Craighead George
Release : 2014-04-03
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Ice Whale by : Jean Craighead George
Download or read book Ice Whale written by Jean Craighead George. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most celebrated children’s nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning Julie of the Wolves In 1848, a young boy witnesses a rare sight—the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, he calls Siku. Years later, he unwittingly brings about the death of an entire pod of whales, and only Siku survives. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the generations, this curse is handed down: Siku returns year after year, in reality and dreams, to haunt the boy’s descendants. Told in alternating voices, both human and whale, Jean Craighead George’s last novel shows the interconnectedness of humankind and the animals they depend on. “It’s a bold, wistful, and heartfelt coda to a distinguished career.”—School Library Journal
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Release : 2008-07-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by : Eric Jay Dolin
Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin. This book was released on 2008-07-17. 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.
