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This absorbing history demonstrates that few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Dolin provides r
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
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In Pursuit of Leviathan
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Pages: 566
Authors: Lance E. Davis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using deta
Whale Ships and Whaling
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Pages: 472
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1925 - Publisher: Salem, Mass. : Marine Research Society

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Presents the story of the Austrian child-bride who, in the "safety" of a royal marriage, was swept up in the political furies of her time and paid with her life
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
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