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Whaling

Images

  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
  • Greenland: above, indigenous fish including seals; centre, three different whales; below, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured engraving.
  • Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out. Coloured aquatint by E. Duncan after W.J. Huggins.
  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • Pilot Whale Campaign.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Greenland voyager / by Tom and Cordelia Stamp.

    Scoresby, William, 1789-1857. | Date: [1983], ©1983
    • Books

    Ultimate Americans : Point Hope, Alaska, 1826-1909 / Tom Lowenstein.

    Lowenstein, Tom. | Date: [2008], ©2008
    • Books
    • Online

    Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian archipelago, etc. with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited / By Frederick Debell Bennett.

    Bennett, Frederick Debell. | Date: 1840
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    Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.

    Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815. | Date: [Jany. 1st. 1789] | Reference: 37593i
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    Adventures on the western coast of South America, and the interior of California : including a narrative of incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Guinea, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. With an account of the natural productions, and the manners and customs, in peace and war, of the various savage tribes visited / by John Coulter. In two volumes.

    Coulter, John, M.D. | Date: 1847
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