Author: Irwin ShapiroPublisher: New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press
ISBN:
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Gives a history of whaling in New England.
The Story of Yankee Whaling
Author: Irwin ShapiroPublisher: New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press
ISBN:
Category : Adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Gives a history of whaling in New England.
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393066665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
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.
Whales, Ice, and Men
Author: John R. BockstocePublisher:
ISBN: 9780295974477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the shores and waters where the great adventure was played out. His book is written with such mastery and vigor that we confidently greet it as the finest history yet written on any aspect of American whaling.
Went to the Devil
Author: Anthony J. ConnorsPublisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 161376653X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll's story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade.
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393331571
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
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 Real Story of the Whaler
Author: Alpheus Hyatt VerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
So Ends this Day
Author: Donald WarrinPublisher: Tagus Press
ISBN: 9781933227283
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fascinating history of the American whaling industry highlighting the role of its Portuguese participants.
Final Voyage
Author: Peter NicholsPublisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399156021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.
The Story of Yankee Whaling
Author: Irwin ShapiroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Includes descriptions of voyages, crews, shipboard living conditions, seamen's families, Nantucket and New Bedford life. Grades 6-8.
The Whalemen
Author: Edouard A. StackpolePublisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial days when boat crews attacked whales near shore through the development of deep-sea whaling by the hardy Quaker whalemen of Nantucket and on into the adventure-packed century when Yankee whalemen made the world their domain.