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001 2007006113
003 DLC
005 20080313102658.0
008 070212s2007 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007006113
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020 $a9780393060577 (hardcover)
020 $a0393060578 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm85018314
035 $a(OCoLC)85018314
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050 00 $aSH383.2$b.D65 2007
082 00 $a639.2/80973$222
100 1 $aDolin, Eric Jay.
245 10 $aLeviathan :$bthe history of whaling in America /$cEric Jay Dolin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$cc2007.
300 $a479 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-459) and index.
520 $aThe epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. Few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Environmental writer Dolin 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. The book also contains a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aWhaling$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006113.html