The Whalers

Author : Patrick Pickens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493044030

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The Whalers by Patrick Pickens Pdf

More than twenty years after departing Hartford, Connecticut, for Raleigh, North Carolina, the NHL's Whalers continue to inspire passion among fans. As HartfordBusiness.com reported in 2015, "Whalers merchandise...still has a cult following not only among fans in Connecticut but around the country." But Whalers devotees aren't just clamoring for jerseys, hats and t-shirts. They're nostalgic for a team that had New England roots for nearly 25 years--in Boston, Springfield, and Hartford--and featured some of the greatest players in NHL history, including Gordie Howe (with his sons Mark and Marty), Bobby Hull, and Ron Francis. Pat Pickens’s book details the Whalers’ origin in Boston in 1972, the team’s WHA championship in 1973, the roof collapse of their home arena that indirectly led to their entrance to the NHL in 1979, their stunning NHL playoff-series win against the top-seeded Quebec Nordiques in 1986, the 1986-87 season when they claimed their first division championship, and their relocation south in 1997 as the Carolina Hurricanes. Pickens imagines a Stanley Cup delivered to hockey-crazed Hartford in 2006, when the Hurricanes instead brought it home to North Carolina. The book also explores the likelihood of an NHL team returning to the Nutmeg State.

Author : Michael J. Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226803043

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We Are All Whalers by Michael J. Moore Pdf

"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 : Dorothy Eber
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 077351421X

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When the Whalers Were Up North by Dorothy Eber Pdf

Oral histories of the 100 years of British and American whaling off the east coast of Canada and in Hudson Bay, as experienced by the native people who fed, clothed, and hunted with the whalers. Illustrated with modern drawings (some in color), and photographs from the period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Harry Castlemon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : NYPL:33433082302781

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Frank Nelson in the Forecastle, Or, The Sportsman's Club Among the Whalers by Harry Castlemon Pdf

Author : Doug Bock Clark
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 1529374154

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The Last Whalers by Doug Bock Clark Pdf

At a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, The Last Whalers tells the inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a remote Indonesian volcanic island. They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. Journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived with the Lamalerans across three years, weaves together their stories. Clark details how the fragile dreams of one of the world's dwindling indigenous peoples are colliding with the upheavals of our rapidly transforming world, and delivers a group of unforgettable families.

Author : Joan Druett
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN : 1584651598

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Petticoat Whalers by Joan Druett Pdf

First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

Author : Howard Baldwin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770893641

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Slim and None by Howard Baldwin Pdf

From his start as an owner in the World Hockey Association at the age of 28 (“slim and none” was a Boston sportswriter’s assessment of Howard’s chances when he was first awarded the New England Whalers franchise), to winning the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins and then on to Hollywood success, sports entrepreneur and film producer Howard Baldwin recounts his spirited and hugely entertaining life story. H oward Baldwin has lived his life according to his belief that the life best-lived is one in which we pursue our heart’s desire. He never met a challenge he couldn’t beat. Beginning with his move at the age of twenty-eight from an entry-level position in the ticket office of the Philadelphia Flyers to acquiring and building his own WHA franchise in New England, Howard has built an impressive reputation as a pioneer — and a maverick — in the world of professional hockey. As President of the WHA, Baldwin led the merger with the NHL, and then later became a key figure in the expansion of North American hockey into Russia. Topping his journey in hockey off with a stint as chairman of the Pittsburgh Penguins, he then moved successfully into the film industry, producing a number of outstanding films including the Academy-Award winning Ray. Slim and None is a story of perseverance, persistence, and ultimately, personal fulfilment. Baldwin and Milton have crafted an intimate portrait of a life within hockey spanning from the rebellious 1970s to the tumultuous 1990s and beyond into the exciting world of the movies.

Author : Peter Chrisp
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1568474210

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The Whalers by Peter Chrisp Pdf

Tells the tale of men's interaction with the world's largest mammals.

Author : Félix Maynard,Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCSD:31822028700516

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The Whalers by Félix Maynard,Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Diary of a French surgeon on whalers in New Zealand waters during voyages from 1837 to about 1846.

Author : Jerry Mikorenda
Publisher : Fitzroy Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646030702

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The Whaler's Daughter by Jerry Mikorenda Pdf

In 1910, twelve-year-old Savannah Dawson lives with her widowed father on a whaling station in New South Wales, Australia. For generations, the Dawson family has carried on a very unusual way of life there. They use orcas to help them hunt whales. But Savannah believes the orcas hunted something else - her older brothers, who died mysteriously while fishing. Haunted by their deaths, Savannah wants to become a whaler to prove to her father that she's good enough to carry on the family legacy and avenge her slain brothers. Meeting an aboriginal boy, Figgie, changes that. Figgie helps Savannah to hone her whaling skills and teaches her about the Law of the Bay. When she is finally able to join the crew, Savannah learns just how dangerous the whole business is. A whale destroys her boat and Savannah sinks into the shark-infested waters. That's when the mysterious spirit orca Jungay returns to rescue her. Savannah starts questioning everything she thought she knew about the orcas, her family and herself. She vows to protect the creatures. That vow tests her mettle when the rapacious owner of a fishing fleet captures the orca pod and plans to slaughter them.

Author : Laurens de Groot
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472903648

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Hunting the Hunters by Laurens de Groot Pdf

A former Dutch police detective outlines his experiences with Sea Shepherd, an international organization protecting marine wildlife, during which he found himself in the middle of a war against a Japanese whaling fleet operating in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.

Author : Lynette Russell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438444253

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Roving Mariners by Lynette Russell Pdf

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 : Knut Bergesen Birkeland
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Whaling
ISBN : OXFORD:N10984535

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The Whalers of Akutan by Knut Bergesen Birkeland Pdf

Popular account of author's visit to Aleutian Islands to investigate problems of North Pacific Sea Products Co., a whaling company, in 1914-15.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Highway law
ISBN : UOM:39015082344139

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U.S. Whaling Policies/International Whaling Commission by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Pdf

Author : Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Whaling
ISBN : 0809426722

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The Whalers by Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple Pdf

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