Captain Alex MacLean : Jack London's Sea Wolf /

Alex MacLean was a sailor and sealer, originally from Cape Breton, who was the inspiration for the title character Wolf Larsen in Jack Lodon's best-selling novel, The Sea-Wolf. When he was just 21, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America where he operated for 35 years. He was a skil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macgillivray, Don, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2008.
Temas:
MacLean, Alexander, > 1858-1914.
MacLean, Alexander, > 1858-1914
Sealing > North Pacific Ocean > History.
Sealers (Persons) > Canada > Biography.
Sailors > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island > Biography.
Phoques > Chasse > Pacifique Nord > Histoire.
Chasseurs de phoques > Canada > Biographies.
Marins > Nouvelle-Écosse > Cap-Breton, Île du > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Fisheries & Aquaculture.
Sailors
Sealers (Persons)
Sealing
Canada
North Pacific Ocean
Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cape Breton and going down to the sea, 1858-82
  • Pelagic sealing: Victoria, 1883-89
  • Conflict in the North Pacific, 1888-89
  • Home port San Francisco, 1890
  • The James Hamilton Lewis and the Russians, 1891
  • The Japanese coast and the North Pacific, 1892-95
  • The Bering Sea Claims Commission hearings and Percy Sherwood, 1896
  • The South Pacific Expedition, 1987-98
  • The Klondike, 1898-1903
  • Poaching with the Carmencita, 1904-1905
  • The Carmencita returns to Victoria, 1905
  • Setting the record straight, Vancouver, 1906-08
  • The final years: Vancouver, 1909-14
  • The legend of Alex MacLean.

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