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History Of The American Whale Fishery From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876
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784 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1878
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March 16, 2024
Similar to Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan (I checked my Leviathan copy and confirmed Dolin used this as a resource). History of the American Whale Fishery, first published in 1878, carries a sense of authenticity that simply can't be recreated in modern whaling history works. This text covers whaling from Plymouth in the first half of the 1600s, to the breakout of the Revolutionary War, from Independence to the War of 1812 and finally from the War of 1812 through to the publication date of the book and the conclusion in 1878 that the whaling industry was already on borrowed time. This text blames a variety of factors for whaling's demise (scarcity of whales, cost of longer whaling voyages, character of men willing to go on whaling voyages, and discovery of other oils).
The text content portion is only about 170 pages, the remainder mostly being filled with tables and charts of results from whaling voyages which must have been painstaking to compile in 1878.
To the causal, modern reader I would recommend Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan over this as the content is similar and Dolin's is in more modern, simpler language. However those more interested in American's whaling history would enjoy this text.
The text content portion is only about 170 pages, the remainder mostly being filled with tables and charts of results from whaling voyages which must have been painstaking to compile in 1878.
To the causal, modern reader I would recommend Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan over this as the content is similar and Dolin's is in more modern, simpler language. However those more interested in American's whaling history would enjoy this text.
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