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The Whale and His Captors; or, The Whaleman's Adventures /
Henry Cheever's 1850 treatise on the cruelty and environmental impact of whaling practices, with a new introduction and afterword. --
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
University Press of New England,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Cheever, Henry T. |q (Henry Theodore), |d 1814-1897, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Whale and His Captors; or, The Whaleman's Adventures / |c Henry T. Cheever ; edited and with an introduction by Robert D. Madison ; afterword by Mark Bousquet. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lebanon, NH : |b University Press of New England, |c [2018] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2018 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2018] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (242 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Seafaring America | |
| 500 | |a Originally published: New York : Harper & brothers, 1850. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Coral island of Rimatara -- Raising and cutting-in whales -- New Zealand cruising ground -- The whale's physiology and natural history -- Different cruising grounds and northwest whaling -- The whale's biography and incidents in the capture -- Atlantic Ocean mammoths and monsters -- Episodes in the fortunes of whalemen -- Conquest and disposal of a bull whale -- Authentic tragedies and perils of the whaling service -- Yarns from the experience of old whalemen -- Peculiar vocabulary and hazards of whalemen -- Remarkable events in the annals of whaling -- Claims and advantages of the Sabbath in a whale ship -- A plea in behalf of the Sabbath for whalemen -- Nearing home and analogies from the sea -- Knitting up the lessons of the voyage at its close. | |
| 520 | |a Henry Cheever's 1850 treatise on the cruelty and environmental impact of whaling practices, with a new introduction and afterword. -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Whaling. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01174284 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Whales. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01174266 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Offshore whaling. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01044443 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / General |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE |x Life Sciences |x Zoology |x Mammals. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a NATURE |x Animals |x Mammals. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Baleines |x Chasse. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Baleines. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Offshore whaling. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Whaling. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Whales. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Bousquet, Mark, |e writer of afterword. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Madison, R. D., |e editor. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/58616/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2018 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2018 History | ||