The Whale Chaser

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897336100
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Whale Chaser written by Tony Ardizzone and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he pursues Lucy Sheehan, an older girl with a "reputation." When Vince abruptly flees Chicago, he ends up in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He finds a job gutting fish, then is hired by Tofino's most colorful dealer, Mr. Zig-Zag, and joins the thriving marijuana trade. Ultimately, through his friendship with an Ahousaht native named Ignatius George, he finds his calling as a whale guide. Set in the turbulent decades of the Vietnam War and the drug and hippie counterculture, The Whale Chaser is a powerful story about the possibility of redemption.

The Whale Chaser

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 089733633X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Whale Chaser written by Tony Ardizzone and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he pursues Lucy Sheehan, an older girl with a "reputation." When Vince abruptly flees Chicago, he ends up in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He finds a job gutting fish, then is hired by Tofino's most colorful dealer, Mr. Zig-Zag, and joins the thriving marijuana trade. Ultimately, through his friendship with an Ahousaht native named Ignatius George, he finds his calling as a whale guide. Set in the turbulent decades of the Vietnam War and the drug and hippie counterculture, The Whale Chaser is a powerful story about the possibility of redemption.

The Last Whale

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458717216
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Whale by : Chris Pash

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...

Last Whale

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Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 9781921696190
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (961 download)

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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.

Follow the Whale

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789124042
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis Follow the Whale by : Ivan T. Sanderson

Download or read book Follow the Whale written by Ivan T. Sanderson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time immemorial man has pursued the whale. Follow the Whale, which was first published in 1956, tells the story of the people who have engaged in that pursuit—its historical, cultural and economic consequences. In narrative never less thrilling for sticking close to the known facts, biologist Ivan Sanderson has recreated the whole fabulous saga of whaling through the ages—not only from the beginning of recorded history but long before. “The story that follows is an attempt to display this fascinating facet of human endeavor in some semblance of its entirety and in proper perspective by a process of corralling the forgotten and more neglected aspects of whaling history and the new discoveries about the whales themselves, and weaving them into a continuous web of narrative. It is primarily natural history, in both senses of that term. It is the history of man’s conquest of the sea, a saga with a theme so inexorable that it can only be described as natural, and it is a natural history of a group of animals than which there are none more mysterious or romantic in the world. To follow the whale is to follow the whole course of one of the most important and significant aspects of our own history. It is virtually the story of the conquest of our planet.”

The Sounding of the Whale

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610057X
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sounding of the Whale by : D. Graham Burnett

Download or read book The Sounding of the Whale written by D. Graham Burnett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.

Alaska's Whaling Coast

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439644977
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska's Whaling Coast by : Dale Vinnedge

Download or read book Alaska's Whaling Coast written by Dale Vinnedge and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whalingin fact, their entire livelihoodwould be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, a new type of whaling using modern steel whale-catchers and harpoon cannons appeared along the Alaskan coast. Yet the Inuit and Inupiat continue whaling today from approximately 15 small towns scattered along the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. Whaling for these people is a life-or-death proposition in a land considered uninhabitable by many, for without the whale, whole villages probably could not survive as they have for centuries.

The Photographic Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Photographic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1853- include the transactions of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

100 Maritime Stories

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Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 192264353X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Book Synopsis 100 Maritime Stories by : David Jones

Download or read book 100 Maritime Stories written by David Jones and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the 200 years since the exploring and naming of the Brisbane River by John Oxley in 1823, David Jones has compiled 100 maritime stories of Queensland. The book is in seven sections covering the early days, colonial era, shipwrecks, wartime and others. Australia’s First Nations people lived in and around the Brisbane River for thousands of years. Though they did not have a name for the entire river, sections of the river were called ‘Meanjin’, ‘Maiwar’ and ‘Toowong’. Other names have been lost over time. Similarly, the Brisbane River was broken up into reaches by the new arrivals. They include Hamilton Reach, Bulimba Reach, Humbug Reach, Shafston Reach, Town Reach and others. The first Europeans to discover the Brisbane River was documented by Thomas Welsby in The Discoverers of the Brisbane River, published in 1913. He states that Richard Parsons, Thomas Pamphlet and John Finnegan were the original discoverers though John Oxley gave them no credit for this. In 200 years the river has been the backbone of the city of Brisbane. Today it is used for trade, tourism, transport, pleasure and Brisbane’s water supply.

The Seas

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Seas by : Frederick Stratten Russell

Download or read book The Seas written by Frederick Stratten Russell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the marine sciences have developed, with much information on plant and animal life, fisheries, oceanographic research, and products from the seas. For the general reader.

Gone A-Whaling

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618432431
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (324 download)

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Book Synopsis Gone A-Whaling by : Jim Murphy

Download or read book Gone A-Whaling written by Jim Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Harpoon

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786732008
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Harpoon by : Andrew Darby

Download or read book Harpoon written by Andrew Darby and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one-hundred-fifty-ton barnacled Blues to the sleek, embattled Minke, whales have been hunted worldwide to near extinction. Despite efforts to halt the killing, the future of these majestic mammals-known as “mind in the water”-is again in jeopardy. With passion and engaging detail, Andrew Darby profiles each species of whale and its place in this great drama. From the wooden harpoons of aboriginals in “cockleshell” vessels, to the high-tech killing machines of today's lawless Russian whalers and smooth-talking Japanese “scientific” crews, Darby chronicles the evolving pursuit of whales and its significance to our humanity. Fans of well-written history, as well as those fascinated by whales and the fierce international conflict surrounding them, will be swept into the very heart of whaling.

War of the Whales

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645023
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis War of the Whales by : Joshua Horwitz

Download or read book War of the Whales written by Joshua Horwitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Reynolds, a crusading attorney, and Ken Balcomb, a marine biologist, teamed up to expose the truth behind a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound and drives whales onto beaches.

On the Northwest

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774843152
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Northwest by : Robert Lloyd Webb

Download or read book On the Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.

Whaling North and South

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Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Book Synopsis Whaling North and South by : Frank Vigor Morley

Download or read book Whaling North and South written by Frank Vigor Morley and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1926 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of arctic whaling and author's experiences as photographer with the Southern Whaling and Sealing Co. in Falkland Islands Dependencies, 1923-25.

Antarctic Whaling

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Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457557290
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis Antarctic Whaling by : Peter Stewart

Download or read book Antarctic Whaling written by Peter Stewart and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An eruption, black, shimmering object breaks the oily surface, the giant tail rises, hovers, then gently slides back, disappearing smoothly without splash or ripple; a further disturbance occurs in the placid water, another similar black object, this time a bulbous shape giving vent to a high, misty spout of water; the object moves slowly, akin to a `Polaris’ submarine submerging to join his companions, a pod of sperm whales, generally milling around but moving steadily southwards.” “this unique story of life aboard a whaling factory ship, told by a junior whalerman has never been told before. The writings remain factual, embellishments being unnecessary” “landing a whale is analagous to that of a fishing rod. The line in this instance being a two inch nylon rope attached to the harpoon which is fed under the gun platform, running to the top of the mast, the latter performing as a fishing rod. The winch or reel, situated below the bridge helmsman and sometimes in conjunction with the catchers engine helps to `play’ the victim.” “a steamy haze swirls around mid-ships bridge; there is shouting and swearing, the steel cable becomes taut, pulling a shiny, creamy looking mass, an inverted sperm whale skull with eye sockets agape, a scene from the comics could not offer more horror. It skids across the slimy, blood red deck, expertly winched by the forward winchman” “...icebergs, different sizes and shapes, a sculptors dream, always with the white cap of frozen snow. Sometimes stark, silhouetted against a blue horizon or with edges, similar to a Turner seascape, disappearing into mist; suns reflections, miraculous, beautiful rainbow colours, contrasting colours of pink, orange to deep vermillion and red, all forming the rich, colourful, awe inspiring palette of nature.

The Illustrated London News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: