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Book Synopsis Whaling in Massachusetts by : Gioia Dimock
Download or read book Whaling in Massachusetts written by Gioia Dimock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular novel Moby-Dick first spurred young and old alike to romanticize the whaling industry. Author Herman Melville wrote his story based on the exploits of the Essex whaleship, and he documented his travels aboard the Acushnet, which departed from a Massachusetts whaling port. In the early 1700s, Massachusetts residents caught whales from the shore before embarking on offshore voyages for several weeks. Later, these trips would extend over many years, bringing home an average of 1,500 barrels of whale oil and thousands of pounds of whalebone in the 1800s. New Bedford and Nantucket were the founding towns for the whaling industry, but little known are the other Massachusetts towns that sent out whalers, built the ships, and outfitted them. Essex, Mattapoisett, and Falmouth were shipbuilding communities; Fairhaven began as a whaling town but quickly took to outfitting whalers; Gloucester made the yellow slickers that were rubbed with sperm whale oil to waterproof them; and Provincetown and Boston were among the many ports that sent out whaling ships.
Book Synopsis Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by : Eric Jay Dolin
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.
Book Synopsis In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’ (Text Only) by : Nathaniel Philbrick
Download or read book In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’ (Text Only) written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century – and inspiration for ‘Moby-Dick’ – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.
Book Synopsis Whale Fishery of New England by : State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Download or read book Whale Fishery of New England written by State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bridges: A Whaling Community: New Bedford, Massachusetts by : Gare Thompson
Download or read book Bridges: A Whaling Community: New Bedford, Massachusetts written by Gare Thompson and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn about how people lived and worked in the 19th century whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Book Synopsis We Are All Whalers by : Michael J. Moore
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"--
Book Synopsis A History of the American Whale Fishery by : Walter Sheldon Tower
Download or read book A History of the American Whale Fishery written by Walter Sheldon Tower and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Whale Fishery of New England by : State Street Trust Company, Boston
Download or read book Whale Fishery of New England written by State Street Trust Company, Boston and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whaling Days written by Carol Carrick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the whaling industry, ranging from hunting in colonial America to modern whaling regulations and conservation efforts.
Book Synopsis In Pursuit of Leviathan by : Lance E. Davis
Download or read book In Pursuit of Leviathan written by Lance E. Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.
Author :Edouard A. Stackpole Publisher :[Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :456 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Whales & Destiny by : Edouard A. Stackpole
Download or read book Whales & Destiny written by Edouard A. Stackpole and published by [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Breath of a Whale by : Leigh Calvez
Download or read book The Breath of a Whale written by Leigh Calvez and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales. Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. The author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.
Author :Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :334 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Whaling Masters ... by : Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts
Download or read book Whaling Masters ... written by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Real Story of the Whaler by : Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
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:
Book Synopsis Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by : Eric Jay Dolin
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 2008-06-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis A Whaling Community New Bedford, Mass by : Gare Thompson
Download or read book A Whaling Community New Bedford, Mass written by Gare Thompson and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the adventures of sailors who hunted whales in the 1800s and what products were made from whale oil and whale parts.
Book Synopsis Historical Whaling Records by : Michael F. Tillman
Download or read book Historical Whaling Records written by Michael F. Tillman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers on methods of data collection and assessment, interpretation of historic logbooks and journals, historic whaling data for the western Arctic bowhead whale population, etc.
