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Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395698471 |
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618432431 |
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Whales |
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Author | : Alice Cushing Gardiner |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Nantucket Island (Mass.) |
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Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393066665 |
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 | : Alice Cushing Gardiner |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Nantucket (Mass.) |
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Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
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Release | : 2004-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780606303378 |
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.
Author | : Lisa Norling |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469616866 |
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Whales |
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Author | : Marion Phillips |
Publisher | : Exposition Pressof Florida |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Whales |
ISBN | : 9780682488921 |