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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.