Northwest : commercial whaling in the Pacifisc Northwest, 1790-1967 / Robert Lloyd Webb.

Northwest : commercial whaling in the Pacifisc Northwest, 1790-1967 /

History of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in the coastal waters of Washington, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska, from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Focuses on working lives of the seaman and is illustrated with paintin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Robert Lloyd
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : Columbia Press, 1988.
Series:Pacific maritime studies series ; 6.
Subjects:
Whaling > Northwest Coast of North America > History.
Whaling > British Columbia > History.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Below Eagle town
  • Cruising over the ground
  • Ominous visitations
  • Glancing blows
  • Warring on whales
  • Skytteren
  • Consolidated whaling
  • In the meat business
  • Appendices: The journal of the Caroline on the Northwest coast, September 1843
  • The Rose Harbour whaling station, 1928.

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