Whales, Ice and Men
| Author | : John R. Bockstoce |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 1978-07-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780295956251 |
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People of the Ice Whale
| Author | : David Boeri |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
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Describes the interrelationship between the Eskimo whalers of northwestern Alaska and the bowhead whale upon which they depend.
Whales, Ice, and Men
| Author | : John R. Bockstoce |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1995-03-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780295974477 |
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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.
Men and Whales
| Author | : Richard Ellis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
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Ice Whale
| Author | : Jean Craighead George |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2014-04-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 110161269X |
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From the most celebrated children’s nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning Julie of the Wolves In 1848, a young boy witnesses a rare sight—the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, he calls Siku. Years later, he unwittingly brings about the death of an entire pod of whales, and only Siku survives. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the generations, this curse is handed down: Siku returns year after year, in reality and dreams, to haunt the boy’s descendants. Told in alternating voices, both human and whale, Jean Craighead George’s last novel shows the interconnectedness of humankind and the animals they depend on. “It’s a bold, wistful, and heartfelt coda to a distinguished career.”—School Library Journal
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
| Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2008-07-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393066665 |
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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.
Of Whales and Men
| Author | : Robert Blackwood Robertson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Offshore whaling |
| ISBN | : |
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The Sounding of the Whale
| Author | : D. Graham Burnett |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 825 |
| Release | : 2012-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226081303 |
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Laws of Early Iceland
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2000-11-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0887553346 |
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The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
| Author | : William F. Perrin |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 1355 |
| Release | : 2009-02-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0080919936 |
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This thorough revision of the classic Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest taxonomy, and a host of biological, ecological and sociological aspects relating to marine mammals. The latest information on the biology, ecology, anatomy, behavior and interactions with man is provided by a cast of expert authors – all presented in such detail and clarity to support both marine mammal specialists and the serious naturalist. Fully referenced throughout and with a fresh selection of the best color photographs available, the long-awaited second edition remains at the forefront as the go-to reference on marine mammals. More than 20% NEW MATERIAL includes articles on Climate Change, Pacific White-sided Dolphins, Sociobiology, Habitat Use, Feeding Morphology and more Over 260 articles on the individual species with topics ranging from anatomy and behavior, to conservation, exploitation and the impact of global climate change on marine mammals New color illustrations show every species and document topical articles FROM THE FIRST EDITION “This book is so good...a bargain, full of riches...packed with fascinating up to date information. I recommend it unreservedly it to individuals, students, and researchers, as well as libraries." --Richard M. Laws, MARINE MAMMALS SCIENCE "...establishes a solid and satisfying foundation for current study and future exploration" --Ronald J. Shusterman, SCIENCE
