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Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling by Granville Allen Mawer

TBM9781865084473
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ISBN: 9781865084473
Author: Granville Allen Mawer
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: St Leonards NSW
Year: 2000
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on book foredges. Please see images for more information.

Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next. Danger, abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for two centuries. The Nantucketers, the first and the best taught the world how whaling should be done.

Ahab's Trade tracks the rise and fall of this first global industry and tells the story of the men who made it. Although they whaled in American, British, French, Australian and New Zealand ships, their calling made them citizens of a closed and isolated world unlike that of other seamen. The good, the mad and the ugly: they are all here to tell their stories and describe a way of life so strange that its survival into our century is almost incomprehensible. (back cover)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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