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Download or read book The Story of the Last of the Old Whalers written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion Dickerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258980191
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Last of the Old Whalers, Charles W. Morgan written by Marion Dickerman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
Author : Doug Bock Clark
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9781529374155
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Last Whalers written by Doug Bock Clark and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 368 pages. 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.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066665
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. 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.
Author : Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Real Story of the Whaler written by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug Bock Clark
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316390631
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Last Whalers written by Doug Bock Clark and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of Lowell Thomas Travel Book Award Silver Medal Finalist for William Saroyan International Writing Prize Longlisted for Mountbatten Award for Best Book Telegraph Best Travel Books of the Year Hampshire Gazette Best Books of 2019 One of the favorite books of Yuval Noah Harari, author of the classic bestseller Sapiens, "on the subject of humanity's place in the world." (via Airmail) On a volcanic island in the Savu Sea so remote that other Indonesians call it "The Land Left Behind" live the Lamalerans: a tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who are the world's last subsistence whalers. They have survived for half a millennium by hunting whales with bamboo harpoons and handmade wooden boats powered by sails of woven palm fronds. But now, under assault from the rapacious forces of the modern era and a global economy, their way of life teeters on the brink of collapse. Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, one of a handful of Westerners who speak the Lamaleran language, lived with the tribe across three years, and he brings their world and their people to vivid life in this gripping story of a vanishing culture. Jon, an orphaned apprentice whaler, toils to earn his harpoon and provide for his ailing grandparents, while Ika, his indomitable younger sister, is eager to forge a life unconstrained by tradition, and to realize a star-crossed love. Frans, an aging shaman, tries to unite the tribe in order to undo a deadly curse. And Ignatius, a legendary harpooner entering retirement, labors to hand down the Ways of the Ancestors to his son, Ben, who would secretly rather become a DJ in the distant tourist mecca of Bali. Deeply empathetic and richly reported, The Last Whalers is a riveting, powerful chronicle of the collision between one of the planet's dwindling indigenous peoples and the irresistible enticements and upheavals of a rapidly transforming world.
Author : Patrick Pickens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493044036
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Whalers written by Patrick Pickens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 281 pages. 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.
Author : Michael J. Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680304X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book We Are All Whalers written by Michael J. Moore and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 234 pages. 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"--
Author : John Randolph Spears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of the New England Whalers written by John Randolph Spears and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039735
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The History of Modern Whaling written by Johan Nicolay Tønnessen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurens de Groot
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472903641
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Hunting the Hunters written by Laurens de Groot and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Dutch police detective outlines his experiences with Sea Shepherd, an international organization protecting marine wildlife, during which he found himself in the middle of a war against a Japanese whaling fleet operating in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
Author : Irwin Shapiro
Publisher : New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Story of Yankee Whaling written by Irwin Shapiro and published by New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a history of whaling in New England.
Author : Matthew D. Plunkett
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760359997
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Unsinkable written by Matthew D. Plunkett and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston Whaler, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2018, is an American boating icon that has made boating reliable, fun, and above all, safe for the fisherman and pleasure-boater alike.
Author : Jerry Mikorenda
Publisher : Fitzroy Books
ISBN 13 : 9781646030705
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Whaler's Daughter written by Jerry Mikorenda and published by Fitzroy Books. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, twelve-year-old Savannah Dawson lives with her widowed father on a whaling station in New South Wales, Australia. For generations, the Dawson family has carried on a very unusual way of life there. They use orcas to help them hunt whales. But Savannah believes the orcas hunted something else - her older brothers, who died mysteriously while fishing. Haunted by their deaths, Savannah wants to become a whaler to prove to her father that she's good enough to carry on the family legacy and avenge her slain brothers. Meeting an aboriginal boy, Figgie, changes that. Figgie helps Savannah to hone her whaling skills and teaches her about the Law of the Bay. When she is finally able to join the crew, Savannah learns just how dangerous the whole business is. A whale destroys her boat and Savannah sinks into the shark-infested waters. That's when the mysterious spirit orca Jungay returns to rescue her. Savannah starts questioning everything she thought she knew about the orcas, her family and herself. She vows to protect the creatures. That vow tests her mettle when the rapacious owner of a fishing fleet captures the orca pod and plans to slaughter them.
Author : Clayton Holt Ernst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Open Road written by Clayton Holt Ernst and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milo Milton Quaife
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Magazine of History written by Milo Milton Quaife and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Old Whaling Days written by Robert McNab and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
