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On the Northwest : Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1988Copyright date: ©1988Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (452 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774854948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the NorthwestDDC classification:
  • 338.37295
LOC classification:
  • SH382.7 -- .W35 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 BELOW EAGLE TOWN -- Chapter 2 CRUISING OVER THE GROUND -- Chapter 3 OMINOUS VISITATIONS -- Chapter 4 GLANCING BLOWS -- Chapter 5 WARRING ON WHALES -- Chapter 6 SKYTTEREN -- Chapter 7 CONSOLIDATED WHALING -- Chapter 8 IN THE MEAT BUSINESS -- Appendices -- A. The Journal of the Caroline on the Northwest Coast, September 1843 -- B. The Rose Harbour Whaling Station, 1928 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 BELOW EAGLE TOWN -- Chapter 2 CRUISING OVER THE GROUND -- Chapter 3 OMINOUS VISITATIONS -- Chapter 4 GLANCING BLOWS -- Chapter 5 WARRING ON WHALES -- Chapter 6 SKYTTEREN -- Chapter 7 CONSOLIDATED WHALING -- Chapter 8 IN THE MEAT BUSINESS -- Appendices -- A. The Journal of the Caroline on the Northwest Coast, September 1843 -- B. The Rose Harbour Whaling Station, 1928 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967.

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