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The Whalemen

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Author : Edouard A. Stackpole
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2016-03-16

The Whalemen written by Edouard A. Stackpole and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with History categories.

No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial days when boat crews attacked whales near shore through the development of deep-sea whaling by the hardy Quaker whalemen of Nantucket and on into the adventure-packed century when Yankee whalemen made the world their domain.

Songs The Whalemen Sang

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Author : Gale Huntington
language : en
Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
Release Date : 1964

Songs The Whalemen Sang written by Gale Huntington and has been published by Mystic Seaport Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Music categories.

Texts of the songs, with music.

The Whalemen

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848

The Whalemen written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Whaling categories.

The Gam

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Author : Gale Huntington
language : en
Publisher: Loomis House Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01

The Gam written by Gale Huntington and has been published by Loomis House Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Music categories.

This long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's classic collection, Songs the Whalemen Sang, assembles more than 200 songs from whalemen's journals, log books, and popular music of the whaling era: whaling songs, sea songs, traditional ballads, popular songs, gospel songs, and a couple of fiddle tunes, nearly all accompanied by musical notation. It represents the culmination of Huntington's career as a collector, historian, writer and musician.

The Whalemen S Adventures In The Southern Ocean

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Author : Henry T. Cheever
language : en
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Release Date : 2012-10

The Whalemen S Adventures In The Southern Ocean written by Henry T. Cheever and has been published by Rarebooksclub.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with categories.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPTUBINQ AND CUTTING-IN OF A WHALE. Here leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Dram in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea. Milton, There she blows ?The Boats start in pursuit?Capturing of a Whale?The process of Cutting-in?A flock of Alba- trosses?Other Sea-birds?Trjing-out?The Whaleman's delightr?Magnitude of the Whale. FOE the first time in our ten weeksi passage from the Hawaiian Islands, on this New Zealand Cruising Ground, we now heard that life - kindling sound to a weary whaleman, There She Blows The usual questions and orders from the deck quickly followed. Where away? Two points on the weather bow How far off? A mile and a half Keep your eye on her Sing out when we head right It turned out that three whales were descried from aloft in differentparts, and in a short time, when we were deemed near enough, the captain gave orders to Stand by and lower for one a little more than half a mile to windward. Three boats' crews pulled merrily away, glad of something to stir their blood, and with eager hope to obtain the oily material wherewith to fill their ship and make good their lay. The whale was going leisurely to windward, blowing every now and again two or three times, then turning tail, up flukes, and sinking. The boats headed'' after him, keeping a distance of nearly one quarter of a mile from each other, to scatter (as it is called) their chances. Fortunately, as the oarsmen were hove up, that is, had their oars a-peak, about the place where they expected the whale would next appear, the huge creature rose hard by the captain's boat, and all the harpooner in the bow had to do was to plunge his t...

The Paths Of The Whalemen

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Author : Arthur Chace Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927

The Paths Of The Whalemen written by Arthur Chace Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Oceanography categories.

Songs The Whalemen Sang

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

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The Whaleman S Adventures In The Southern Ocean As Gathered By The Rev H T Cheever On The Homeward Cruise Of The Commodore Preble Edited By The Rev W Scoresby With Plates

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Author : Henry Theodore CHEEVER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850

The Whaleman S Adventures In The Southern Ocean As Gathered By The Rev H T Cheever On The Homeward Cruise Of The Commodore Preble Edited By The Rev W Scoresby With Plates written by Henry Theodore CHEEVER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with categories.

The Whalemen S Adventures In The Southern Ocean As Gathered By The Rev Henry T Cheever On The Homeward Cruise Of The Commodore Peeble

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Author : W. Scoresby
language : en
Publisher: Smyth Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01

The Whalemen S Adventures In The Southern Ocean As Gathered By The Rev Henry T Cheever On The Homeward Cruise Of The Commodore Peeble written by W. Scoresby and has been published by Smyth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.

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The Whaleman S Adventures In The Southern Ocean

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Author : Henry Theodore Cheever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859

The Whaleman S Adventures In The Southern Ocean written by Henry Theodore Cheever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Offshore whaling categories.