We Are All Whalers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are All Whalers write by Michael J. Moore. This book was released on 2021-11-12. We Are All Whalers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Marine scientist Michael J. Moore says we are all whalers, but we don't have to be. Eating fish leads to North Atlantic right whales' entanglement and death. Buying goods made around the world requires global shipping routes, which do not accurately consider right whale breeding and feeding sites, leading to collision. To explain this, Moore conveys to readers scenes from over thirty years' worth of fieldwork, performing whale necropsies for animals stranded on beaches, working as an independent researcher alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and tracking injured pregnant whales to deliver antibiotics. Despite these sometimes disturbing experiences, Moore has written a hopeful book. He uses these stories to show we can change and to tell us how; the technology for rope-less fishing and tracking whale migrations already exist to protect both right whales and the people who depend on shipping and fishing for their livelihoods"--
The Last Whalers
The Last Whalers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Whalers write by Doug Bock Clark. This book was released on 2020-02-20. The Last Whalers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, The Last Whalers tells the inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a remote Indonesian volcanic island. They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. Journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived with the Lamalerans across three years, weaves together their stories. Clark details how the fragile dreams of one of the world's dwindling indigenous peoples are colliding with the upheavals of our rapidly transforming world, and delivers a group of unforgettable families.
The Sounding of the Whale
The Sounding of the Whale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sounding of the Whale write by D. Graham Burnett. This book was released on 2012-01-31. The Sounding of the Whale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Sounding of the Whale, D.
Harpoon
Harpoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harpoon write by Andrew Darby. This book was released on 2007. Harpoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reveals the political machinations and manipulations at the highest levels to reinstate whaling, particularly in Japan, and traces the history of modern commercial whaling, the industry's determination to ignore reasonable checks and balances, and the effectiveness of the International Whaling Commission.
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America write by Eric Jay Dolin. This book was released on 2008-07-17. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
