Ahab'S Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling - Softcover

Mawer, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1865084476 ISBN 13: 9781865084473

Verlag: Allen & Unwin, 2000

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Reseña del editor:

Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next; danger and abuse, excitement and tedium were the lot of the open-boat whalemen in the South Seas for more than two centuries. This book tracks the rise and fall of this first truly global industry, telling the stories of the men who made it. Although they whaled in American, British, French, Australian and New Zealand ships, their calling made them citizens of a separate, closed and isolated world, unlike that even of other seamen. The book describes that world and its unique pressures.

Biografía del autor:

Allen Mawer, one of Australia's rising maritime historians, immersed himself in the history and literature of south sea whaling for two years before setting out to write Ahab's Trade. He is the author of Fast Company and the critically acclaimed Most Perfectly Safe, the story of the British convict shipwreck disasters of the 1830s.

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• Verlag: Allen & Unwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1865084476
• ISBN 13: 9781865084473
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416