Author : Stuart M. Frank
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1567924522
The New Bedford whaling fleet was the most numerous and arranging in the world, setting off on voyages that often lasted for years and extended as far as the Antarctic and Siberia. This title features over 700 detailed photos from the world's finest collection of scrimshaw, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Author : Christine A. Arato
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Historic sites
ISBN :
Author : Peggi Medeiros
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1626197911
The early nineteenth century in New Bedford was a time of unimaginable wealth, intellectual ferment and artistic treasures. Prosperous whaling magnates like members of the Rotch, Morgan and Howland families commissioned the nation's finest architects to design and construct their majestic mansions. The city's architectural and cultural expansion brought great writers and artists like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson into the homes of County Street's elite. Yet behind the elegant fa�ade of grand parties and notable house guests were the secrets and scandals of New Bedford's upper crust. Join author Peggi Medeiros as she chronicles the history of each mansion and the stories once hidden behind closed doors.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9780997516166
Author : Michael P. Dyer (Historian)
Publisher :
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780997516135
Author : Daniel Gifford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1476640076
The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of the Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece.
Author : Michael J. Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022680304X
"Marine scientist Michael J. Moore says we are all whalers, but we don't have to be. Eating fish leads to North Atlantic right whales' entanglement and death. Buying goods made around the world requires global shipping routes, which do not accurately consider right whale breeding and feeding sites, leading to collision. To explain this, Moore conveys to readers scenes from over thirty years' worth of fieldwork, performing whale necropsies for animals stranded on beaches, working as an independent researcher alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and tracking injured pregnant whales to deliver antibiotics. Despite these sometimes disturbing experiences, Moore has written a hopeful book. He uses these stories to show we can change and to tell us how; the technology for rope-less fishing and tracking whale migrations already exist to protect both right whales and the people who depend on shipping and fishing for their livelihoods"--
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2022-02-25
Category :
ISBN :
Moby Dick or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work's genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a "Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world and the greatest book of the sea ever written. Its opening sentence, Call me Ishmael, is among world literature's most famous.
Author : William Bradford
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :
Presents 78 paintings by William Bradford (1823-1892) in full colour, from early ship portraits and harbor scenes to Arctic views
Author : Christina Connett
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Knots and splices
ISBN : 9780997516142
"The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) celebrates the work of the master knot tyer, maritime artist, historian, and author Clifford W. Ashley in a monumental exhibition in two of the Museum's most prestigious galleries. The exhibition premieres the recent gift to the Museum of Ashley's private knot collection alongside interpretive material from the Museum's permanent holdings as well as the artist's paintings, prints, and work by other knot tyers and artists Ashley inspired." -- page 11
