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Author : Edward Lee Dorsett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Whaling Days written by Edward Lee Dorsett and published by . This book was released on with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxine Mrantz
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ISBN 13 : 9781949307634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Whaling Days in Old Hawai'i written by Maxine Mrantz and published by . This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1819, two New England ships, Balaena and Equator, cruising off the coast of Hawai'i's Kealakekua Bay, harpooned and killed a whale. They were the first American whalers to do so in Hawaiian waters, but they were certainly not to be the last. And it was only the beginning.That same year brought New England missionaries on the brig Thaddeus. Their destinies converged with the whalers in shaping Hawai'i's future.This was an era when whaler lawlessness and missionary law clashed again and again, racking the land with violence and causing Hawai'i's king many a weary and many a worried hour. No storyteller could have invented a drama with more conflict than the one played in Hawai'i during her wild, whaling days.Riots, burnings, shootings¿sailors armed with pistol, club and knife, threatening missionaries and native Hawaiians alike. Ships firing cannon on missionary homes. Police trying in vain to quell riots. Seamen demanding island girls like so much merchandise-and willing to pay the price. Gambling, drunkenness, theft, venereal disease¿It was all a part of the colorful whaling history of Hawai'i.
Author : Maxine Mrantz
Publisher : Aloha Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780941351102
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hawaii's Whaling Days written by Maxine Mrantz and published by Aloha Pub. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxine Mrantz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Whaling Days in Old Havaii written by Maxine Mrantz and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Carrick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395764800
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Whaling Days written by Carol Carrick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996-02-10 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.
Author : Francis Allyn Olmsted
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Incidents of a Whaling Voyage written by Francis Allyn Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Allyn Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Incidents of a Whaling Voyage. To which are added observations on the scenery manners and customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands. Accompanied by numerous lithographic prints written by Francis Allyn Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Carrick
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606088961
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Whaling Days written by Carol Carrick and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1996-02-10 with total page 40 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.
Author : Robert Oaks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524368
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Hawai'i written by Robert Oaks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although its soils are the youngest in the Hawaiian chain, the Big Island's chronicles are at times epic, tragic, and heroic, but always fascinating. Modern Hawai'i is filled with tradition and mythology, accommodating influences as diverse as its inviting landscape. Kamehameha stood tall to mold this nascent region into a unified kingdom and others fought to sustain it, while outside forces molded and shaped this island in astonishing ways.
Author : Tara Bray Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141658742X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book West of Then written by Tara Bray Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii. At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan—island flower, fifth generation haole (white) Hawaiian, Mayflower descendant—now living on the streets of downtown Honolulu. Despite her recklessness, Karen inspires fierce loyalty and love in her three daughters. When she goes missing in the spring of 2002, Tara, the eldest, sets out to find and hopefully save her mother. Her journey explores what you give up when you try to renounce your past, whether personal, familial, or historical, and what you gain when you confront it. A tender story that lays bare the anguish, candor, and humor of growing up a half-step off the beat, West of Then is a striking literary debut from a perceptive and original writer. By turns tough and touching, Smith's modern detective story unravels the rich history of the fiftieth state and the realities of contemporary Hawaii—its sizable homeless population, its drug subculture—as well as its generous, diverse humanity and astonishing beauty. In this land of so many ghosts, the author's search for her mother becomes a reckoning with herself, her family, and with the meaning of home.
Author : Andrea Kirkpatrick
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039158633
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Game of Chance written by Andrea Kirkpatrick and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s almost impossible to imagine spending eight months at sea “without once putting foot on land.” But that’s exactly what whalers experienced when playing the dangerous “game of chance,” hunting down leviathans for oil and bone—all for a “lay,” or share, of the vessel’s spoils. A Game of Chance is the first comprehensive, in-depth study of British North American South Seas whaling. Author Andrea Kirkpatrick takes readers on a series of fascinating and sometimes fantastical journeys as she chronicles in great detail the story of a largely forgotten industry that operated out of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports from the 1760s to 1850. Kirkpatrick plumbed the depths of myriad logbooks and journals to piece together the often-murky tales of an astonishing number of ships. In this treatise covering a century of whaling, she shares details such as ownership, tonnage, voyages, captains’ pedigrees, and names of crewmen, including nascent whaler Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Hoping for “greasy luck,” the men who manned these ships found both camaraderie and competition as they hunted the world’s whaling grounds from Cape Horn to Kamchatka, many circumnavigating the globe during their careers. They battled squalls and high seas, scurvy and venereal disease, heartbreak and homesickness—and sometimes each other. Many never returned home, their bodies committed to the deep or buried on foreign land. Written in two parts—landward and seaward—Kirkpatrick’s clear prose and adoption of whaling lingua franca brings this high-risk venture to the fore with authenticity, newly revealed facts, and remarkable stories of adventure.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Arthur Rath
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824829490
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Lost Generations written by J. Arthur Rath and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Depression years, J. Arthur Rath spent his early childhood shuttled between relatives and foster parents in Hawai'i and on the mainland while his single mother, Hualani, struggled to make a living. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, his grandparents sent him to the Big Island and Konawaena School, where he heard the Kamehameha Schools boy choir at a school assembly. The performance made a deep impression on Rath, and a year later, in 1944, he entered Kamehameha as an eighth-grade boarder. Thus began Rath's love affair with an institution that he credits with turning his life around, with giving him and other disadvantaged children of native ancestry - Hawai'i's "lost generations" - the confidence and support necessary to make something of themselves. This is the story of that love affair. It is also the story of Rath's recent battle, together with other alumni, for the integrity of his beloved Kamehameha against the school's trustees and their organization, the powerful Bishop Estate." "Intelligent and impressionable, Rath spent an idyllic four years at Kamehameha. In a lively talk-story manner, he reminisces about campus life and his classmates, many of whom became lifelong friends and influential members of the Hawaiian community: Don Ho, Nona Beamer, Oswald Stender, Tom Hugo, William Fernandez. Years later Rath, a successful retired businessman, would call on these same friends to hold Kamehameha's trustees accountable for their mismanagement of Bishop Estate's vast financial holdings and ultimately their failure to carry out founder Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's mandate to educate Hawaiian children. Rath draws on his many personal ties to the school and the estate to provide surprising revelations on the trustees and the "Bishop Estate Scandal," which made headlines daily throughout the mid-1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William Barron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Old Whaling Days written by William Barron and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Briton Cooper Busch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184754
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Whaling Will Never Do For Me written by Briton Cooper Busch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I just begin to find out that whaling will never do for me and have determined to leave the ship here if possible." That sentiment, expressed by a foremast hand aboard the ship Caroline in 1843, is one shared by many of the whalemen in this fascinating book. Interest in Herman Melville's Moby Dick has contributed to a substantial literature on the history and lore of the industry. But not until now has the vast body of surviving whaleship logs and journals been used to paint an encompassing picture of the difficult but colorful life aboard nineteenth-century American whaling vessels. Briton Cooper Busch, author of a definitive history of the American sealing industry, in this book only incidentally discusses the actual chase for whales. His focus instead is the life of whalemen at sea, and particularly the harsh discipline that kept men aboard through long and often dispiriting years. Busch depicts the complex social world aboard ship, defining and detailing such issues as crime and punishment, competing racial elements, the social distance between officers and men, sexual behavior, and the role of women aboard ships. For oppressed, discouraged, or simply bored whalemen, several escapes existed, from the rarest of all mutiny through labor protests of various types, to individual desertion or appeal to an American consul abroad. To each of these topics Busch devotes a chapter. He also provides glimpses of those occasional moments of relief such as a Fourth of July celebration and such somber moments as a death at sea. Fascinating details and original quotations from individual whalemen make this book more than a study of general trends. For anyone with even a casual interest in whaling, it is indispensable.
Author : Robert McNab
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Old Whaling Days written by Robert McNab and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
