The Whale and His Captors; Or, The Whaleman's Adventures
Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
Publisher : New York : Harper & Bros.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Cetacea
ISBN :
Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
Publisher : New York : Harper & Bros.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Cetacea
ISBN :
Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
Publisher : New York : Harper & Bros.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Cetacea
ISBN :
Author : Lynette Russell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438444257
For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.
Author : Henry T. Cheever
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781436585965
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393331571
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." --Nathaniel Philbrick
Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,48 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 : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN :
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1983-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520045484
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library. This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.
Author : Henry T 1814-1897 Cheever
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781355267263
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Author : Mike Bezemek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1510731377
Moby Dick is regularly hailed as one of the greatest works of American literature. But suppose Ishmael had instead shared his tale in tweets? #Moby-Dick or The Whale in Tweets hilariously reimagines Herman Melville's classic whaling novel in just 200 tweets, each 140 characters or less. Ishmael here! Went broke in NYC, Super bored with land (damp drizzly soul,) I'm going to sea! #callme #whalingvoyage In this witty abridgment, mad captain Ahab's quest for vengeance upon a white whale is retold with Internet acronyms. The plight of the Pequod and its motley crew is punctuated by the occasional emoji. And Ishmael ponders whaling and humanity with hashtags. Including an appendix that presents the original passages upon which each tweet is derived, #Moby Dick offers modern readers an entertaining and accessible companion to a great American classic.