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Scottish Arctic Whaling (Paperback)
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Scottish Arctic Whaling (Paperback)
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Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known
but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of
original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds
of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen east-coast
Scottish ports, harvested more than 20,000 bowhead whales at East
Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. And they did so under almost unimaginably
demanding and hazardous conditions. More than 110 ships were lost,
while others were often detained within the pack-ice, causing the
whale men to suffer starvation, disease, scurvy, frostbite and
death. In 1836 alone, more than 100 whalers on the Advice and
Thomas, Dundee, and Dee of Aberdeen perished when they became
entrapped at Davis Strait. Nevertheless, by the second half of the
nineteenth century, through hard work, skill and perseverance,
Scotland had a virtual monopoly on Arctic oil and bone, until
seriously depleted stocks and the outbreak of the First World War
brought the industry to a close.
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