Whelks to Whales PDF Download

Author: Rick M. Harbo
Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub.
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Category : Coastal animals
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Winner of a 2000 BC Book Award and a BC Bestseller

Author: Charles F Flaherty
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Cherry Lane Press
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Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Robert Lloyd Webb
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.

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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Rick M. Harbo
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 1550179845
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Newly revised and updated in 2010 with additional photographs and up-to-date names, this full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters and beachcombers. It is a ready reference to more than 400 of the most common species, the fascinating local sponges, jellyfish, crabs, shrimp, barnacles, clams, snails, seals, fish, whales, sea algae and hundreds of other living things that can be observed and identified without being disturbed. The book is arranged for quick identification with colour-coded sections, full-colour photographs and comprehensive but concise information on size, range, habitat and facts of interest about each species. A glossary, checklist, reading list and full index are included.

Author: Douglas Hand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570610707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In the darkened halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Douglas Hand encountered a killer whale with the head of a man emerging from the blowhole. This puzzling and haunting specter was carved on a worn cedar totem pole of the Haida, Native Americans of the Northwest coast. What indigenous wisdom inspired orca and human to be wrought together in wood? Indeed, where does one species begin and the other end? Gone Whaling is the exquisitely rendered account of a journey to the waters of the Pacific Northwest to find answers to those questions as well as to track down the essence of orca, that wildest of animals. The quest takes the author first to the Vancouver Aquarium, where he encounters orcas in tanks and scientists who blur the lines between research and showmanship. Moving out to the San Juan Islands, he locates Ken Balcolm, marine biologist and orca census-taker, who deciphers the familial dynamics of the whales by tracking their far migrations. From there, he is led to the controversial researcher Paul Spong - known as the "patron saint of the whales" - who is mapping the clicks and squeaks the orcas make as they travel by his home on remote Hansen Island. But science can go only so far in providing a real understanding of the mystery of these creatures of the sea, so Douglas Hand turns to the last remaining Haida totem carvers to explain what orca means. In the end, he is inspired to take on the dangerous waters himself in a one-man kayak to encounter his own orca. Gone Whaling is rich with natural history and human stories. The mysterious and deeply complex behavior of orcas is described with crystalline detail and style. The inquiry itself is infusedwith the author's boundless curiosity and tempered with his wry humor. This luminous and confident book appeals to the part of us all that has pondered the deep rift between humans and other creatures, between the modern and the primitive. There is an old Haida belief that a good life is rewarded by death and rebirth as an orca. Therefore, you should treat the orca well that swims close to shore, for it may be your ancestor. This special book probes the boundary that separates and binds humans to killer whales, and humans to the natural order.

Author: Robert Lloyd Webb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919253186
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Kenneth S. Norris
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Author: David A. E. Spalding
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Whales of the West Coast is the whale book we have been waiting for. -Anne Moon, Victoria Times-Colonist Excerpted in Canadian Forum

Author: Dale Vinnedge
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467132578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Pacific Northwest waters from Alaska to Oregon lie between the Arctic whaling grounds and the home whaling ports of San Francisco and Honolulu. While the Pacific Northwest was not a whaling destination, whales in these rich grounds were pursued for many years as whale ships moved between the whalers' summer whaling grounds and southern home ports. After 1900, whaling in the north Pacific changed from sailing ships to modern, steam-powered iron ships and harpoon cannons. Land stations were built along southern Alaska, Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and Washington State. The new "killer" ships brought whales to these land stations for flensing and for rendering into oil, fertilizer, and other products. Most of these products were shipped to Seattle and San Francisco on steamers and factory ships at the end of the season. At the start of the season, supplies and workers were shipped up from Seattle to resupply and repopulate the stations.