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Dolin, Eric Jay.
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Whaling -- United States -- History.
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Leviathan : the history of whaling in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
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Dolin, Eric Jay.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2007.
Subjects
Whaling -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780393060577 (hardcover)
0393060578 (hardcover)
Description:
479 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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First edition
Summary Note::
The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. Few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Environmental writer Dolin 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. The book also contains a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales.--From publisher description.
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SH383.2 .D65 2007
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