The British Whaling Trade

Author : Gordon Jackson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949073

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The British Whaling Trade by Gordon Jackson Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive economic history of the British Whaling Trade, divided into two eras of significant technological difference. The first part concerns the traditional whaling trades that structured the industry for three centuries, from 1604-1914. The second part concerns the modern whaling trade between the years 1904-1963, characterised by technological advance and tremendous international competition. Gordon Jackson approaches the enormous subject of British Whaling from the perspectives of both the national economy of Britain, and the international whaling industry as a whole. The book consults official statistical material to determine the size and performance of various whaling fleets; eye-witness accounts and state papers for the early history of the trade; log books, and trade and customs records for the eighteenth century; and the documents of the Southern Whaling Company, Salvesen, and Unilever for insights into the modern whaling period. The book concludes with appendices containing statistical data concerning whale oil, whale stocks, and the price of goods, two bibliographies of further reading, and a conclusion that free competition and market demand simply exhausted whale stocks beyond any possibility of restoration.

Author : Granville Allen Mawer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sealing
ISBN : 1865084476

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Ahab's Trade by Granville Allen Mawer Pdf

Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale will seem like a minor eccentricity compared to the tales in this beautifully written adventure story about life on the high seas.

Author : Tony Barrow
Publisher : Business Education Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Whaling
ISBN : 1873757832

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The Whaling Trade of North-East England by Tony Barrow Pdf

Author : Bill Spence
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Whaling
ISBN : 0517311577

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Harpooned by Bill Spence Pdf

Author : Edouard A. Stackpole
Publisher : [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Whaling
ISBN : UOM:39015014699030

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Whales & Destiny by Edouard A. Stackpole Pdf

Author : Henry Elking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1722
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435062091335

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A View of the Greenland Trade and Whale-fishery by Henry Elking Pdf

Author : Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton
Publisher : Jane M Clayton
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Ship registers
ISBN : 9781526201362

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Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815 by Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton Pdf

A reference book providing a snapshot of the life histories of more than fifty shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery over a forty year period. It gives details of their places of business, the number of whaling ships they owned and biographical information about their commercial dealings and personal lives. A map of London showing the River Thames and the location of the businesses of the majority of these shipowners is enclosed.

Author : L. S. Rickard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Whaling
ISBN : UCSD:31822029821733

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The Whaling Trade in Old New Zealand by L. S. Rickard Pdf

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393066661

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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin Pdf

A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 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 The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.

Author : Charles Enderby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Auckland Islands
ISBN : BL:A0023496961

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Proposal for Re-establishing the British Southern Whale Fishery, Through the Medium of a Chartered Company, and in Combination with the Colonisation of the Auckland Islands, as the Site of the Company's Whaling Station by Charles Enderby Pdf

Author : Harry Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : UCAL:B5116151

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The Whale's Wake by Harry Morton Pdf

A history of whaling and whalers in New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.

Author : Thomas Southwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Cetacea
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJW7S

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The Seals and Whales of the British Seas by Thomas Southwell Pdf

Author : Archibald Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : 9781474463966

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Dundee Whaling Fleet by Archibald Malcolm Archibald Pdf

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs.From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe.The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

Author : Daniel Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0140114890

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The Great Chase by Daniel Francis Pdf

Author : John F. Richards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282537

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The World Hunt by John F. Richards Pdf

Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world’s oceans and coastlands.