The whale and his captors
Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Henry T. Cheever
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1512602663
The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s. Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America's classic novels. After exhausting other whaling sources - Beale, Scoresby, Bennett, and Browne - Melville turned to Cheever for chapter titles and organization as well as passages that helped shape, define, and elucidate his great work. This is the first scholarly edition of The Whale and His Captors, accompanied by an introduction and apparatus that clearly elucidates Cheever's treatise on whaling and demonstrates how his writings contributed both to the course of American literature and to our burgeoning understanding of literature's engagement with the natural world.
Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
Publisher : New York : Harper & Bros.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Cetacea
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Author : Elmo Paul Hohman
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Whalers (Persons)
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Author : Agnes Strickland
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Princes
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Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1469622580
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was "Indian" and how "Indians" behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
Author : Thomas Cogswell Upham
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : Library of Congress. Catalog Division
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Library catalogs
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