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Ahab's Trade. The Saga of South Sea Whaling

Categorie	Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer	#255042
Titel	Ahab's Trade. The Saga of South Sea Whaling
Auteur	Mawer, Granville Allen
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, St. Martin's Press
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0312228090
ISBN13	9780312228095
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Australian maritime historian Mawer argues that though the whalers sailed on ships bearing American, British, French, Australian, and New Zealand flags, they were in fact citizens of a separate, closed, and isolated world quite unlike that even of other seamen. He traces the rise and fall of the trade, which in two centuries decimated the spermaceti whale but also charted much of the South Pacific. Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale is a minor eccentricity, he says, compared to some of the real stories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Pagina's	393
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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