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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert L Webb |
ISBN: | 0774802928 9780774802925 |
OCLC Number: | 246359233 |
Description: | XXI, 425 Seiten : Illustrationen. |
Contents: | Below Eagle town -- Cruising over the ground -- Ominous visitations -- Glancing blows -- Warring on whales -- Skytteren -- Consolidated whaling -- In the meat business -- Appendices: The journal of the Caroline on the Northwest coast, September 1843 -- The Rose Harbour whaling station, 1928. |
Series Title: | Pacific maritime studies series, 6. |
Responsibility: | Robert Lloyd Webb. |
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Solid scholarship and showy style. On the Northwest is a substantial and readable addition to the published history of whaling ... Webb has written a superior, robust work of whaling scholarship that also provides an unusual slant on regional history. -- Kenneth R. Martin * International Journal of Maritime History * Extremely able and well-written. -- J. M. Bumsted * The Beaver * Read more...
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