The Yankee Whaler

The Yankee Whaler PDF Author: Clifford Ashley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144283
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
One of the finest, most colorful and definitive studies of whaling ever published. Construction and outfitting of ships, crafts and routines, hunting methods, much more. 133 halftones. 17 line illustrations. Introduction.

Went to the Devil

Went to the Devil PDF Author: Anthony J. Connors
Publisher: 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.

The Yankee Whaler

The Yankee Whaler PDF Author: Clifford Warren Ashley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whales
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description

Whales, Ice, and Men

Whales, Ice, and Men PDF Author: John R. Bockstoce
Publisher:
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.

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America PDF Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: 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.

Greasy Luck

Greasy Luck PDF Author: Gordon Grant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147231
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Entire art and craft of whaling is depicted, from views of the galley and the sight of a whale breaching, to examples of scrimshaw art and a version of a "Nantucket sleigh ride." 64 plates.

Oil, Ice and Bone

Oil, Ice and Bone PDF Author: Helen Frink
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931807968
Category : Whalers (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Feel the ocean wind in your face as you read an eyewitness account of 15 years of whaling in the Okhotsk and Arctic seas, culminating in the disastrous loss of most of the North Pacific fleet in 1871

The Whalemen

The Whalemen PDF Author: Edouard A. Stackpole
Publisher: 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.

Men and Whales

Men and Whales PDF Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558216969
Category : Whales
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The celebrated marine writer-artist Richard Ellis delineates in this copiously illustrated book the complex history of men and whales. Lively, authoritative text is interwoven with photos, paintings, drawings, and maps to provide a comprehensive history of the whales' turbulent--and always controversial--relationship with humankind. Over 250 illustrations.

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Rendered Obsolete PDF Author: Jamie L. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
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