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 Ash, Christopher,
WHALER'S EYE.
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Barbour, John A.,
IN THE WAKE OF THE WHALE. NY: 1969, 1st edition, Macmillan.
G (ex-library marks) in G (ex-library marks), dust jacket, blue boards; pictorial boards; illustrations
$12.50
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Bochstoce, John R., WHALES, ICE AND MEN: The History of Whaling in the Western
Arctic. Seatlle: 1995, 2nd printing, U of WA Press. VG+ 0295974478 oversize trade
paperback; illustrations; dense $25.00
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$27.50
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Busch, Briton Cooper,
WHALING WILL NEVER DO FOR ME: The American Whaleman of the 19th
Century. Lexington: 1994, 1st edition, U of Kentucky. As new/as new Black boards $27.50
Synopsis:
The author "has compiled a social and cultural history of whalemen, utilizing whaleship logs and journals to analyze . . . life aboard ship. He describes the 'instruments of control over life aboard, together with the nature of that life which made the whaleship as much of a total institution as many others that merit a similar label.' Such subjects as punishment by flogging, race relations aboard ship and in port, the problem of desertion, religion, therole of women, . . . festive occasions, and death at sea {are discussed}." (Choice) Bibliography. Indexes.
Table of Contents: List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: The American Whaleman; Crime and Punishment;
Race and Status; Work Stoppages; Whalemen and American Consuls Abroad; Desertion; The Practice of Religion;
Whalemen's Women, Whalemen's Wives; The Festive and the Ceremonial; Waterfront Havens and the Honolulu Riot of 1852;
Notes; Bibliography; Index of Whaleships; General Index.
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Chase, Owen, First Mate,
THE WRECK OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX:
A First-hand Account of One of History's Most Extraordinary Maritime Disasters.
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$15.00
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Cousteau, Jacques-Yves and Philipe Diole,
THE WHALE, MIGHTY MONARCH OF THE SEA.
Garden City: 1972, 2nd printing, Doubleday. VG in G+ dust jacket Oversize; blue boards; illustrations $15.00
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Giambarba, Paul, WHALES, WHALING AND WHALECRAFT. Centreville: 1967, 1st edition,
Scrimshaw Press. VG- Trade paperback; illustrations $15.00
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(another copy) Giambarba, Paul,
WHALES, WHALING AND WHALECRAFT. Centerville: 1967, 1st edition,
Scrimshaw Pub. G (light wear to wrapper) Trade paperback; illustrations $15.00
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$50.00
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Gibson, Arrell Morgan,
YANKEES IN PARADISE: The Pacific Basin Frontier.
University of New Mexico Press, 1993. NEW copy. Still in shrinkwrap. First Edition.
Bibliography, index, 502 pages. This book "...views America's expansion in the Pacific
Basin from 1784 to1861 as part of the nation's
frontier experience. . . . [The book] argues that the same agents were at work on this
maritime frontier as on the frontier onland. Explorers, hunters and fur traders,
merchants, miners, farmers, missionaries, military men, and writers added to
American knowledge of the Pacific Basin, established and enlarged the American
presence, drew government attention to the region, leading to the Americanization
of the area." (Library Journal).
From Choice: "Gibson's book is devoted to a rather forgotten area of US involvement, the Pacific Basin. Because this was a commercial rather than a settlement frontier, it remained overshadowed by the epic continental expansion of the 19th century. . . . Gibson narrates the story of Americans searching for whales and markets and marketable commodities, such as hides or guano. This is also the story of missionaries, naval men, island paradise seekers, and even of popular authors, whose writings about the Pacific caught the public eye. . . . An excellent resource for readers at all levels seeking to learn more about the role Americans played in the Pacific".
OUT OF PRINT
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Haley, Nelson Cole (Harpooner in the Ship
Charles W. Morgan
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WHALE HUNT: THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE.
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$25.00
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Hand, Douglas, GONE WHALING: A Search for Orcas in New Waters. NY: 1994, 1st edition,
Simon and Schuester. VG+/VG+ Blue and green boards; illustrations $25.00 From the Publisher
After seeing a sensual, weathered cedar carving of an orca (killer whale) intertwined with a human being, Douglas Hand sets off for the Pacific Northwest, traveling from aquariums to the wind-blown straits of the Queen Charlotte Islands. He encounters scientists and mystics, and from each perspective gleans insight into the essence of the orca and our relationship to the natural world.
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Jonaitis, Aldona, THE YUQUOT WHALERS' SHRINE. Seattle: 1999, 1st edition, U of WA
Press. As new in as new dust jacket 0295978287 black boards; oversize; illustrations $32.50
Providing as much a historical monograph as an anthropological study, Jonaitis, director of the University of Alaska Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, details the history of the Nootka Whalers' Shrine, from its origins in Yuquot (Friendly Cove), to its acquisition by George Hunt in 1905, for the American Museum of Natural History, and its subsequent interest to anthropologists, historians, and even film makers. This book is full of b&w photographs and drawings, including several from 1904 of the shrine as well as each of the pieces it contained. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
260 pgs
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Lowenstein, Tom, ANCIENT LAND, SACRED WHALE: The Inuit Hunt and Its Rituals. NY:
1996, 2nd printing, North Point. VG 0865474885 trade paperback $10.00 196 pgs. British poet and ethnographer Lowenstein has done research among the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, for nearly 20 years. For three seasons he served as a crewman in a skinboat during the whale hunt; here he introduces the village, the oldest continuous settlement on the continent, and its topography. From the storyteller Asatchaq, Lowenstein heard about the whale myth and the elaborate rituals of the hunt, which he retells in poems in these pages. According to the myth, the Tikigaq peninsula was once a whale-like creature; after it was killed by a harpooner, it lived on as both body and spirit and remains a source of sustenance and the focus of worship. The rituals for the hunt still constitute an extended drama that begins in autumn and culminates with the springtime hunt. In a lengthy narrative poem, Lowenstein reconstructs the hunt as it occurred prior to contact with Europeans. This vivid portrait of an ancient culture is a remarkable blend of poetry and anthropology. Illustrations.
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Martin, Kenneth R.,
DELAWARE GOES WHALING: 1833-1845.
The Hagley Museum, Greenville, Delaware. 1974. Staple-bound booklet, illustrated, 64 pages.
Table of contents: Introduction; The Growth of American Whaling; Whaling Fever Comes to Wilmington, 1833;
Delaware Whalemen Put to Sea, 1834; The Growth of the Wilmington Whaling company, 1835-1840; Life Aboard the Wilmington Whaleships;
Hard Luck and Disappointment, 1840-1846; Selected Bibliography.
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$35.00
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Maxwell, Gavin, HARPOON VENTURE. NY: 1952, 1st edition, Viking. VG-(minor white spots
to boards, owner's name to title page) in G (price blacked out, fading to spine, minor tears and chips)
dust jacket Green boards; illustrations $35.00
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Maxwell, Gavin, HARPOON VENTURE. Harpoon Venture. NY: 1996, 1st (of this) edition, Lyons. VG+
trade paperback; illustrations. Gavin Maxwell, best known as the author of Ring of Bright Water, describes in thrilling detail the story of his four years hunting the basking shark. When Maxwell acquired a small island in the Hebrides off Scotland shortly after World War Two, he decided to hunt the thirty-foot leviathan of the northern waters for commercial purposes. Every step of the way, however, presented danger and difficulties, making this a tale of a mighty sea chase with precious few peers among books of maritime adventure.
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McManus, Michael,
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN SCRIMSHAW.
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Melville, Herman, MOBY-DICK. Chicago: 1952, Encyclopedia Brittanica. VG-(light wear)
Grey and black boards; v. 48 of the "Great Books" $15.00
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[Melville] Severin, Tim, IN SEARCH OF MOBY DICK: The Quest for the White Whale. NY: 2000, 1st edition, Basic Books. VG+ in as new dust jacket. Green boards. From Publishers Weekly:
"In the role of adventurer-cum-historian, Severin (The Brendan Voyage, etc.) has built leather boats and
replicas of ninth-century Arab dhows in order to re-create the voyages of St. Brendan, Jason and the Argonauts,
and Sindbad. His new adventure explores Melville's white whale and the culture of the gifted harpooners who are
the last people on earth to hunt whales from small boats. Melville himself met such men when he deserted a whaling
ship in French Polynesia in 1842, and Severin returns to the same island, Nuku Hiva. There he collects the
information that allows him to dissect the myths and facts of Melville's Typee, and convincingly argue that
Moby-Dick was influenced by Melville's contact with the Nuku Hivans. Severin also expounds on the disaster of
the whaleship Essex, the habits of the great mammals themselves and the spiritual and mystical aspects of
the Polynesians' whale hunts. A description of a young islander's coming of age in a successful hunt is transfixing.
The author's firsthand account of whaling from a small boat is equally powerful. Severin is mystified that the whales
don't flee as the hunters draw near enough to attack: "Where is their sense of self-preservation?" But the hunters
know: the whale gives himself to those who have performed the ritual; just as surely, the whale will punish those
who are greedy or negligent. This, Severin suggests, is the root of Melville's spiteful cetacean: Ahab was unworthy,
and Moby-Dick delivered divine retribution in accordance with islander lore. The islanders' generations of
experience, legend and myth are the authorities for Severin, as valid to him as any laboratory test results, and his
description of their culture is profoundly moving." $22.50
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Mowat, Farley, A WHALE FOR THE KILLING. NY: 1974, Penguin. G (creases, stain) Mass paperback
$7.50
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Ommanney, F.D.,
LOST LEVIATHAN: WHALES AND WHALING.
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Philbrick, Nathaniel,
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. NY: 2000, 13th printing, Viking. VG+
in VG+ dust jacket, blue boards; illustrations $20.00
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(another copy) Philbrick, Nathaniel,
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. NY: 2000, 10th printing, Viking. VG+
in VG+ dust jacket, blue boards; illustrations $20.00
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Robertson, R.B., OF WHALES AND MEN. NY: 1961, 4th printing, Knopf. G(ex lib marks) in
G dust jacket, blue boards; illustrations $12.50
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$40.00
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Robotti, Frances Diane,
WHALING AND OLD SALEM.
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$17.50
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(another copy) Robotti, Frances Diana,
WHALING AND OLD SALEM. NY: 1962, Bonanza. G+ (ex-lib marks)
in G+ (ex-lib marks) dust jacket, blue boards; illustrations $17.50
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Spence, Bill,
HARPOONED: THE STORY OF WHALING.
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Stackpole, Edouard A.,
THE SEA-HUNTERS: THE NEW ENGLAND WHALEMEN DURING TWO CENTURIES, 1635-1835.
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(reprint edition) Stackpole, Edouard A.,
THE SEA-HUNTERS: The Great Age of Whaling. NY: 1953, Bonanza
Books. VG-/VG- Blue boards $25.00
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Williams, Harold, ed. ONE WHALING FAMILY. Boston: 1964, 1st edition, Houghton
Mifflin. VG in VG-(1 minor tear, light wear) dust jacket Red boards $35.00
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(another copy) Williams, Harold, ed. ONE WHALING FAMILY. Boston: 1964, Houghton Mifflin.
VG (number in ink to flyleaf, owner info in ink within) in VG-(1/2" area with tiny wrinkles
and tears) dust jacket, red boards; illustrations $30.00
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Whipple, A.B.C.,
YANKEE WHALERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
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