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Men and whales

Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1991.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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The author chronicles the history of whaling in both hemispheres, and discusses regulation and anti-whaling movements.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Ellis
ISBN: 0394558391 : 9780394558394
OCLC Number: 21911182
Description: xv, 542 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: The quarry -- Man meets whale -- The later history of early whaling -- Inshore whaling -- The sperm whale fishery -- Right and gray whaling -- The heavy artillery -- Aboriginal whaling -- Whaling outside the Antarctic -- Antarctic fortunes -- The beginning of the end -- The anti-whaling movement -- After the moratorium.
Responsibility: Richard Ellis.

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The author chronicles the history of whaling in both hemispheres, and discusses regulation and anti-whaling movements.

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