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Author: Lewis Holmes
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Holmes tells the story second hand, having heard it from four of the seamen involved. The Citizen was wrecked on the Chukotsk Peninsula Siberia, and this account includes much on the Eskimo, and notes on a stop in Hilo on the voyage out.
Author: Holmes Lewis
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781314798753
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Author: Lewis Holmes
Publisher:
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The whaler Citizen left New Bedford, Massachusetts, on October 29, 1851, for what was to be a three- or four-year voyage to North Pacific. After rounding East Cape (today known as Cape Dezhnev), the northeastern-most point on the mainland of Asia, and entering the Arctic Ocean, the vessel was wrecked in a storm on September 25, 1852. Five members of the crew were lost in the gale. The other 33 men made it to shore, where they were kept alive for nine months by local people, Yupik Eskimos inhabiting this sparsely populated region of Chukotka, Siberia. The Arctic Whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean is an account of the ordeal of the crew of the Citizen, written by Lewis Holmes, a clergyman from Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, based mainly on an oral account of the voyage given to him by Thomas Howes Norton, also of Edgartown, captain of the Citizen. The book has 15 illustrations and includes notes on the native people of the region, including their methods of hunting whales, their huts, manner of preparing food, customs, language, and so forth. The surviving crewmembers of the Citizen finally were rescued by two New England whalers on July 4, 1853. The book concludes with a brief history of the whaling industry. The heyday of the American whaling industry was from 1820 to 1850, when American whalers accounted for 652 vessels in the worldwide whaling fleet of about 882 ships. New Bedford was the leading whaling port, followed by Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Nantucket, Massachusetts, and New London, Connecticut. Whaling in the Arctic Ocean began in 1848, when the bark Superior of Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, first passed through the Bering Strait to hunt the bowhead whale. Within three years, 250 ships, mostly from New England, had made whaling voyages to the seas north of Siberia and Alaska.
Author: Lewis Holmes
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06-05
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789354204838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Arctic Whaleman: Or, Winter In The Arctic Ocean: Being A Narrative Of The Wreck Of The Whale Ship Citizen, Of New Bedford, In The Arctic Ocean, Lat. 68° 10' N., Lon. 180° W., Sept. 25, 1852, Commanded By Thomas Howes Norton, Of Edgartown, And The Subsequent Sufferings Of Her Officers And Crew During Nine Months Among The Natives. Together With A Brief History Of Whaling. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Author: Lewis Holmes
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-24
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ISBN-13: 9781359175496
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Author: Lewis Holmes
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Published: 2016-08-24
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781360359762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lewis Holmes
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Published: 2017-10-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780649061532
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