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Book Synopsis The Whaler's Forge by : Christine Echeverria Bender
Download or read book The Whaler's Forge written by Christine Echeverria Bender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Over a century before Columbus will venture across the Atlantic Ocean, a storm battered Basque whaling galleon drops anchor off the eastern coast in North America. IN this savage new land, harpooner Kepa de Mendieta becomes the victim of a terrible accident and is left behind. With winter approaching, Kepa struggles against eh brutal forces of nature ina fight for survival as well as redemption.
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Book Synopsis The Last Whalers by : Doug Bock Clark
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.
Book Synopsis The Last Whalers by : Doug Bock Clark
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.
Download or read book Forged in Crisis written by Nancy Koehn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history…a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic” —Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of Grit An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights, Forged in Crisis, by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson. What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. She begins each of the book’s five sections by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. Whether it’s read as a repository of great insight or as exceptionally rendered human drama, Forged in Crisis stands as a towering achievement.
Book Synopsis The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine by : Aldona Jonaitis
Download or read book The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine written by Aldona Jonaitis and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905 George Hunt, at the insistence of anthropologist Franz Boas, acquired a remarkable collection of materials from the Mowachaht band of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) for the American Museum of Natural History. An assemblage of 92 carved wooden figures and whales, 16 human skulls, and the small building that sheltered them, the shrine had for centuries stood in Yuquot, or Friendly Cove, on the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, visited only by chiefs and their wives. Since its removal to New York, it has been represented in anthropological and historical writings, film, television, and newspapers. In this fascinating study, Aldona Jonaitis investigates and reconstructs the history of the shrine both before and after it was acquired for the museum. Clues to the shrine's complex history--traced to the mid-17th century--and meaning are provided by historical and anthropological writings, photographs, stories, the Hunt-Boas correspondence, and the artifacts themselves. Jonaitis addresses important contemporary issues, including the Mowachaht band's desire to have the shrine repatriated for display in Yuquot.
Book Synopsis The Young Ice Whalers by : Winthrop Packard
Download or read book The Young Ice Whalers written by Winthrop Packard and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Young Ice Whalers" by Winthrop Packard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Book Synopsis Report of the Secretary of the Navy by : United States. Navy Dept
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Navy written by United States. Navy Dept and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering for the Year ... by : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Steam Engineering
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering for the Year ... written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Steam Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Chief ... by : United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Engineering
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief ... written by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year ... by : United States. Navy Department
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year ... written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Whalers of Akutan by : Knut Bergesen Birkeland
Download or read book The Whalers of Akutan written by Knut Bergesen Birkeland and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular account of author's visit to Aleutian Islands to investigate problems of North Pacific Sea Products Co., a whaling company, in 1914-15.
Book Synopsis Forging the Tortilla Curtain by : Thomas Torrans
Download or read book Forging the Tortilla Curtain written by Thomas Torrans and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Whaling in the Frozen South by : Alan Villiers
Download or read book Whaling in the Frozen South written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expedition commanded by Captain Carl A. Larsen.
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Download or read book Forged Steel Water-tube Marine Boilers ... written by Babcock & Wilcox Company and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
