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Download or read book Last Whale written by Chris Pash and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 1970s, one young reporter bears witness to the final days of Australia’s whaling industry. Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, this incisive account tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end. This fair and balanced account portrays the raw adventure of going to sea, the perils of being a whaler, and the commitment that leads activists to throw themselves into the path of an explosive harpoon. Accompanied by a wonderful photographic record of the time, this is the action-packed history of a town reliant on whaling dollars pitted against a determined band of protesters.
Download or read book The Last Whale written by Chris Pash and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its the end of the seventies and one young reporter is bearing witness to the final days of Australias whaling industry. Thirty years after the last whale was captured and slaughtered in Australia, Chris Pash, tells the very human story of the characters and events that brought whaling to an end. This fair and balanced account portrays the raw a...
Book Synopsis The Last Whalers by : Doug Bock Clark
Download or read book The Last Whalers written by Doug Bock Clark and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable... a rich, novelistic account based on diligent reporting ... An empathetic, even intimate account, but not a dewy-eyed one ... Wonderful' Daily Telegraph 'I absolutely loved this magnificent book' Sebastian Junger 'A monumental achievement' Mitchell Zuckoff '[An] immersive, densely reported and altogether remarkable first book ... The Last Whalers has the texture and colouring of a first-rate novel' New York Times At a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, The Last Whalers tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." 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. Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived with the Lamalerans across three years, weaves together their stories with novelistic flair to usher us inside this hidden drama. Jon, an orphaned apprentice whaler, strives to earn his harpoon and feed his ailing grandparents. Ika, Jon's indomitable younger sister, struggles to forge a modern life in a tradition-bound culture and realize a star-crossed love. Ignatius, a legendary harpooner entering retirement, labors to hand down the Ways of the Ancestors to his son, Ben, who would rather become a DJ in the distant tourist mecca of Bali. With brilliant, breathtaking prose and empathetic, fast-paced storytelling, Clark details how the fragile dreams of one of the world's dwindling indigenous peoples are colliding with the irresistible upheavals of our rapidly transforming world, and delivers to us a group of families we will never forget.
Book Synopsis The Wake of the Whale by : Russell Fielding
Download or read book The Wake of the Whale written by Russell Fielding and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.
Download or read book The Last Whales written by Lloyd Abbey and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876 by : Alexander Starbuck
Download or read book History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876 written by Alexander Starbuck and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Moby Dick; Or, The Whale written by Herman Melville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melville. A giant white whale bites off Captain Ahab's leg. He wows to find the creature and seek revenge, is this adventurous and classic seafaring tale.
Book Synopsis The Two-Headed Whale by : Sandy Winterbottom
Download or read book The Two-Headed Whale written by Sandy Winterbottom and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Urgent and moving.”—Publishers Weekly ★ An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic. In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. There are two sides to every story. The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the extraordinary abundance of this planet. Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Download or read book The Last Whale written by Chris Vick and published by Zephyr. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 1.3 million great whales left in the Earth's oceans today.Climate activist Abi and her AI computer Moonlight are on a mission to protect the planet.When they uncover whale song recordings made by Abi's great-grandfather, a whale hunter, Moonlight discovers a pattern......the songs are a map to a future that could rescue the whales and rescue the world.'A hard-hitting, beautifully written call to arms' Guardian* Daily Mail Best Book of 2022 ** Big Issue Kids' Best Book of 2022 *
Book Synopsis Ahab's Rolling Sea by : Richard J. King
Download or read book Ahab's Rolling Sea written by Richard J. King and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Book Synopsis Mark Carwardine's Guide To Whale Watching In Britain And Europe by : Mark Carwardine
Download or read book Mark Carwardine's Guide To Whale Watching In Britain And Europe written by Mark Carwardine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and fully updated edition of this popular title, which is the definitive guide to watching whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and other European waters. A fascinating introduction to whales and whale watching is followed by a detailed field guide with spectacular illustrations, identification and behaviour tips, dive sequences and distribution maps for all the cetaceans of Europe. The final part of the book provides a comprehensive guide to Europe's major whale watching sites, covering 19 countries in all, from Scotland and Ireland to Spain and Norway. Imagine watching Minke Whales in the light of the midnight sun in Iceland; snorkelling with a wild Bottlenose Dolphin; or sharing a day with a group of Blue Whales against a spectacular backdrop of snow-capped mountains. These are just a few of the whale and dolphin watching experiences now available in different parts of Europe, which is rapidly becoming a hot-spot for this exhilarating activity.
Book Synopsis The Works of Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, or, The whale by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, or, The whale written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moby Dick or The Whale / Моби Дик или Белый кит by : Герман Мелвилл
Download or read book Moby Dick or The Whale / Моби Дик или Белый кит written by Герман Мелвилл and published by Litres. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Моби Дик» – главный роман Мелвилла. В его основу легли личные впечатления от работы автора на китобойном судне, а также услышанные им реальные истории. Однако нельзя назвать «Моби Дика» полностью автобиографическим произведением.Основной сюжетной линией романа является история рассказчика Измаила, попавшего на «Пекод» – судно капитана Ахава, одержимого поимкой белого кашалота по имени Моби Дик. Причина такой ненависти капитана кроется в том, что в одном из прошлых плаваний он потерял ногу по вине белого кита.Воспользуйтесь возможностью насладиться этой увлекательной историей на языке оригинала.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.
Book Synopsis FICTION MOBY DICK; OR THE WHITE WHALE by :
Download or read book FICTION MOBY DICK; OR THE WHITE WHALE written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moby Dick; or, the Whale (Illustrated) by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Moby Dick; or, the Whale (Illustrated) written by Herman Melville and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. It initially received mixed reviews and at Melville's death in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as a children's sea adventure, but now is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism. The opening line, "Call me Ishmael," is one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. Ishmael then narrates the voyage of the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ahab has one purpose: revenge on Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and the process of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God.
Download or read book The Urban Whale written by Scott D. Kraus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic right whale was extinct or nearly so. The sightings electrified the research community, spurring a quarter century of exploration, which is documented here. The authors present our current knowledge about the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, Scott Kraus, Rosalind Rolland, and their colleagues present a vivid history of this animal, from a once commercially hunted commodity to today's life-threatening challenges of urban waters. Hunted for nearly a millennium, right whales are now being killed by the ocean commerce that supports our modern way of life. This book offers hope for the eventual salvation of this great whale.
Book Synopsis The Great Sperm Whale by : Richard Ellis
Download or read book The Great Sperm Whale written by Richard Ellis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, Richard Ellis has produced a remarkable body of work that has been called "magnificent" (Washington Post Book World), "masterful" (Scientific American), "magical" (Men's Journal), and a "dazzling tour de force" (Christian Science Monitor). Ellis's new book-a fascinating tour through the world of the sperm whale-will surely inspire more such praise for the author heralded by Publisher Weekly as "America's foremost writer on marine research." Written with Ellis's deep knowledge and trademark passion, verve, and wit-and illustrated with a wide array of images including his own signature artwork-his study covers the full spectrum of the sperm whale's existence from its prehistoric past to its current endangered existence. Ellis, as no one else can, illuminates the iconic impact of Physeter macrocephalus ("big-headed blower") on our history, environment, and culture, with a substantial nod to Herman Melville and Moby-Dick, the great novel that put the sperm whale (and whaling) on the literary map. Ranging far and wide, Ellis covers the sperm whale's evolution, ecology, biology, anatomy, behavior, social organization, intelligence, communications, migrations, diet, and breeding. He also devotes considerable space to the whale's hunting prowess, including its clashes with the giant squid, and to the history of the whaling industry that decimated its numbers during the last two centuries. He even includes a story about a beached juvenile he helped rescue, an event that provided scientists with one of their first opportunities to observe a sperm whale in the water and up close. Offering a rich tapestry for anyone with an interest in the marvels of ocean life, Ellis's book provides an indispensable guide to the life and times of one of the planet's most intelligent, elusive, and endangered species.
