Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great WhaleHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 208 páginas In the early days of whaling, whales were plentiful and it seemed that they would always fill the sea. When people realized how much money could be made from whales in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, entire species were wiped out in the rush to hunt these gentle and magnificent creatures. This account is an even-handed portrayal of the exciting, grisly, and sometimes profitable business of pelagic whaling, told from the perspective of young whalers through their detailed journal entries and letters. Glossary, bibliography, index. |
Índice
Enticed by the Riches | 9 |
So We Were All Soon Aboard | 21 |
Work Like Horses and Live Like Pigs | 35 |
It All Seems So Strange | 51 |
Nothing So Electrifying | 69 |
A Foot of Oil on Deck | 85 |
A Strange Uneven Sort of Life | 101 |
We Have Been Stove by a Whale | 121 |
Homeward Bound | 137 |
The Great Killing | 151 |
The New Whale Hunters | 171 |
GLOSSARY | 183 |
193 | |
204 | |
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Gone A-whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale Jim Murphy Vista previa restringida - 1998 |
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Gone A-whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale Jim Murphy No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1998 |
Términos y frases comunes
aboard animal Balaenopteridae Bedford belowdecks blanket piece blood blubber blue whales boat body bone bowhead bunk cabin boy casks catchers cetologists Chase Clifford Ashley coast cooked Cousteau creature crew members cruising or migrating dead whale deck Dolphin Enoch Cloud factory ship fin whale flensers flukes forecastle Frank Bullen George Fred Tilton gray whale greenies harpoon Harty Bodfish hauled head humpback whale hundred hunting island killed lookout mast mate meat miles minke minke whales mph cruising mph fleeing GROUP Nantucket ocean officers Pacific port pounds ADULT pounds SWIMMING SPEEDS right whale Robert Weir rope rorqual sail sailors scrimshaw sei whales ship's shore side sight species sperm whale spermaceti spotted spout surface tail tons took tryworks vessel watch WEIGHT whale hunters whale oil Whale OTHER COMMON whale watchers whaleboat whalemen whaleship whaling voyage William Fish Williams York young
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