There She Blows
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wheeler, James Cooper) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from There She Blows: A Whaling Yarn Fifty or sixty years ago Whaling was a great Industry, and hundreds of vessels manned by thousands of sea-faring men, as fearless and efficient as those described in these pages, pursued Leviathan to the very boundaries of the globe. To-day it is a thing of the Past. One occasionally hears of a lonely whaleship in the arctic seas, or of whales being caught from stations on shore and shot to death with cannons, but the heroic pursuit of the olden times is dead. Whalers were a breed of seadog differing from the present type of sailorman as much as a Collie does from an Upland Scotch stag hound, and while I freely admit the present generation to be in many ways an improvement on their predecessors of fifty years back, I maintain that the men who sailed out of New Bedford, Nantucket, and Sag Harbor in the forties possessed a toughness of sinew and energy of mind it would be difficult to parallel in the present era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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