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Author: Knut Bergesen Birkeland
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Popular account of author's visit to Aleutian Islands to investigate problems of North Pacific Sea Products Co., a whaling company, in 1914-15.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 2144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Author: Dale Vinnedge
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439644977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whalingin fact, their entire livelihoodwould be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, a new type of whaling using modern steel whale-catchers and harpoon cannons appeared along the Alaskan coast. Yet the Inuit and Inupiat continue whaling today from approximately 15 small towns scattered along the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. Whaling for these people is a life-or-death proposition in a land considered uninhabitable by many, for without the whale, whole villages probably could not survive as they have for centuries.
Author: Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780520039735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth Stafford Norris
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 812
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Lloyd Webb
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 0774843152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
