The Last Voyage Of The Whaling Bark Progress
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The Last Voyage Of The Whaling Bark Progress
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Author : Daniel Gifford
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-01-11
The Last Voyage Of The Whaling Bark Progress written by Daniel Gifford and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-11 with History categories.
The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of the Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece.
Rendered Obsolete
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Author : Jamie L. Jones
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-08-10
Rendered Obsolete written by Jamie L. Jones and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
Whale Hunt
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Author : Nelson Cole Haley
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-28
Whale Hunt written by Nelson Cole Haley and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with History categories.
The true story of a voyage to the South Pacific in search of sperm whales. The Charles W. Morgan was the last surviving whaler from the fleet sailing out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was retired in 1921, after 80 years of active service. In this book, first published in 1948, Nelson Cole Haley recaptures the high drama of the whale hunt, the character of his shipmates, and their adventures ashore on the exotic islands of the South Pacific. “This classic true story of a voyage on the CHARLES W. MORGAN is both a wonderful read and an excellent source of information about American whaling in the 19th century.”—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
Four Years Aboard The Whaleship
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Author : William B. Whitecar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Four Years Aboard The Whaleship written by William B. Whitecar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Sailors categories.
Four Years Aboard the Whaleship is a first-hand account of a voyage to the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans in search of the sperm and right whales. The account is by William B. Whitecar, Jr., a Philadelphian who signed on as a common sailor on the New Bedford whaler Barque Pacific. It is based on a detailed journal, which the author kept, as he explains in his preface, "at sea, on a sailor's chest, amongst seamen, by night and by day, amid storm and calm...." The book offers a vivid picture of life at sea, as well as observations on locations on land that the ship passed or stopped at, including the Azores, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, and numerous islands in the Pacific. Written just a few years after Herman Melville's literary classic of 1851, Moby-Dick: or The Whale, the book touches upon many of the same topics and themes that Melville covers in his great work of fiction: the long hours at sea, the diversity of the whaling crews and the international character of the whaling industry, "gammoning" with other whaleships at sea, the dangers of the hunt, and the death of fellow crewmen at sea. In his concluding chapter, under the heading "Advice to Landsmen," the author concludes, perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, by "advising all young men who can gain a livelihood ashore, to stay at home." As arguments against whaling, he cites the low pay (which he calculates at about a dollar a month, after expenses are deducted and the gains from the sale of the barrels of oil apportioned among the crew and ship's owners), and the drudgery of much of the work.
Reports Of Committees
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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Reports Of Committees written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with United States categories.
Senate Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Mr Davis From The Committee On Foreign Relations Submitted The Following Report
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Mr Warren From The Committee On Claims Submitted The Following Report To Accompany S 1010
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Mr Warren From The Committee On Claims Submitted The Following Report To Accompany S 1010 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale Fishery
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Author : William Scoresby
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable
Release Date : 1823
Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale Fishery written by William Scoresby and has been published by Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with Arctic regions categories.