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Gone A-Whaling. The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale

By Jim Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference;Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Clarion Books
Year
2004
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
71 MB (74596649 bytes)
Pages
152\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:29:13

Description

In the early days of whaling, whales were plentiful and it seemed that they would always fill the sea. When people realized how much money could be made from whales in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, entire species were wiped out in the rush to hunt these gentle and magnificent creatures. This account is an even-handed portrayal of the exciting, grisly, and sometimes profitable business of pelagic whaling, told from the perspective of young whalers through their detailed journal entries and letters.

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