A Year With A Whaler

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At the end of the 19th century Walter Noble Burns shipped out on his first-and last-whaling voyage. The novelty and excitement of life on board ship is soon tempered by his growing experience in the ways of whalers and the giant mammals they seek. The power, intelligence and courage of these hunted animals is clearly described by this young eyewitness. None prove to be easy prey, and whether in success or failure, their personalities come through as vividly as those of the men who hunt them. A Year With A Whaler ...
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At the end of the 19th century Walter Noble Burns shipped out on his first-and last-whaling voyage. The novelty and excitement of life on board ship is soon tempered by his growing experience in the ways of whalers and the giant mammals they seek. The power, intelligence and courage of these hunted animals is clearly described by this young eyewitness. None prove to be easy prey, and whether in success or failure, their personalities come through as vividly as those of the men who hunt them. A Year With A Whaler is a year among men, animals and the sea itself, as seen through the eyes of an innocent who went to sea to find the man he was to become. Walter Noble Burns was born in 1872. After responding to a help wanted ad he shipped out on the whaling bark Alexander in 1890 and wrote this memoir in 1913.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781444690606
  • Publisher: Read Books Design
  • Publication date: 12/9/2009
  • Pages: 276
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.62 (d)

Table of Contents


The Lure of the Outfitter     1
The Men of the "Alexander"     9
Why We Don't Desert     19
Turtles and Porpoises     30
The A, B, C of Whales     41
The Night King     51
Dreams of Liberty     62
Gabriel's Little Drama     73
Through the Roaring Forties     84
In the Ice     94
Cross Country Whaling     103
Cutting In and Trying Out     111
Shaking Hands with Siberia     122
Moonshine and Hygiene     133
News From Home     141
Slim Goes on Strike     150
Into the Arctic     158
Blubber and Song     165
A Narrow Pinch     177
A Race and a Race Horse     185
Bears for a Change     194
The Stranded Whale     202
And So-Home     209
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