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Author: Eric Jay Dolin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393066665 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 512
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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.
Author: Henry Hampton Halley Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company ISBN: 9780310257202 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 904
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Halley's Bible Handbook, the classic layperson's companion text, includes a concise Bible commentary, important discoveries in archaeology, related historical data, church history, maps, and more.
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Рипол Классик ISBN: 5871283659 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 733
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Bible readings for the home circle: comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics, contributed by more than a score of bible students. To which added The game of life, a pictorial allegory.
Author: James Rochford
Author: James Rochford
Author: Marilyn Hickey
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Author: John Milton
Author: Henry Hampton Halley
Author: Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
Author: Anonymous
Author: James E. Talmage
Author: William Ambrose Spicer