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In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling (Paperback, English Edition)
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In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling (Paperback, English Edition)
Series: In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
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Loot Price R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the
rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian
Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and
blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved
the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and
death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these
whalemen in the North would irrevocably alter the lives of Inuit.
Along with first-hand accounts from journals and dozens of rare,
historical photographs, this collection includes the myth of the
Octaviusaa ship that drifted for twelve years with a frozen
crewaencounters between sailors and Inuit, tales of the harrowing
hazing rituals suffered by first-time crewmembers, and much more.
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