[PDF.25lw] Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling

Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling

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 | #14966568 in Books |  2000-07 | Original language:English | File type: PDF | 393 pages

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||23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| Great whaling history.|By A Customer|This is a really good piece of work. I'm a maritime history buff and I enjoyed it a lot. If you're at all interested in the early history of the New England states or especially interested in Nantucket and the way people there made their fortunes, I'd give this book a try. It's a good history that reads like a good novel in places.|From Publishers Weekly|Mawer provides an (at times overly) exhaustive account of South Sea whaling, a lucrative commercial enterprise that had its heyday in the early 19th century. Readers will learn everything they ever wanted to know about whaling: the tools o

Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next, danger and abuse, excitement followed by tedium - these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for more than two centuries. This book tracks the rise and fall of this truly global industry and tells the stories of the men who made it. Although they whaled in American, British, French, Australian and New Zealand ships, their calling make them citizens of a separated, closed and isolated world. The book describes t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling   |  G. A. Mawer, Allen Mawer. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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