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Book Synopsis AN ARCTIC WHALING DIARY. by : W.Gillies Ross (Ed)
Download or read book AN ARCTIC WHALING DIARY. written by W.Gillies Ross (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Arctic Whaling Diary by : George Comer
Download or read book An Arctic Whaling Diary written by George Comer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of George Comer, master of the American whaling schooner Era.
Book Synopsis An Arctic Whaling Diary by : George Comer
Download or read book An Arctic Whaling Diary written by George Comer and published by . This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dangerous Work by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Dangerous Work written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Book Synopsis An Arctic Whaling Diary: The Journal of Captain George Comer in Hudson Bay 1901-1905 by : W. Gillies Ross
Download or read book An Arctic Whaling Diary: The Journal of Captain George Comer in Hudson Bay 1901-1905 written by W. Gillies Ross and published by Heritage. This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comer'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.
Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Daughter by : Laura Jernegan
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Daughter written by Laura Jernegan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Laura Jernegan, a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s who records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.
Book Synopsis Scottish Arctic Whaling by : Chelsey W. Sanger
Download or read book Scottish Arctic Whaling written by Chelsey W. Sanger and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Scotland's 150-year involvement in Arctic bowhead whaling using previously unpublished research from port records and newspaper accounts.
Book Synopsis An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791 by : Ann Savours
Download or read book An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791 written by Ann Savours and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dangerous Work by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Dangerous Work written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1880, when Arthur Conan Doyle was only 20 years old, he spent seven months as a ships surgeon on an Arctic whaler. During the voyage, he kept a detailed diary. This edition contains a full facsimile of the diary, with a transcription, plus several non-fiction and fiction pieces based on the experience and life on board
Book Synopsis Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery by : William Scoresby
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery written by William Scoresby and published by Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable. This book was released on 1823 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by : Stuart M. Frank
Download or read book Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved written by Stuart M. Frank and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Bedford whaling fleet was the most numerous and arranging in the world, setting off on voyages that often lasted for years and extended as far as the Antarctic and Siberia. This title features over 700 detailed photos from the world's finest collection of scrimshaw, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Book Synopsis An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791. [Being a Commentary on the Journal Written by George Kerr, Surgeon Aboard the Aberdeen Whaling Ship Christian.] (Reprinted from the Polar Record Vol. 9. No. 63, Sept. 1959.) [With a Facsimile.]. by : Ann Savours
Download or read book An Arctic Whaling Journal of 1791. [Being a Commentary on the Journal Written by George Kerr, Surgeon Aboard the Aberdeen Whaling Ship Christian.] (Reprinted from the Polar Record Vol. 9. No. 63, Sept. 1959.) [With a Facsimile.]. written by Ann Savours and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora by : David Moore Lindsay
Download or read book A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora written by David Moore Lindsay and published by Boston : D. Estes. This book was released on 1911 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of voyage from Dundee to Davis Strait, 1884.
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 and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. 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
Download or read book Oil and Ice written by Peter Nichols and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Gift of the Whale written by Bill Hess and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill 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.
Download or read book Oil, Ice and Bone written by Helen Frink and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel 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