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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
ISBN 10: 0688088392ISBN 13: 9780688088392
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Good. 1st ed. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by University of Washington Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 029598015XISBN 13: 9780295980157
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Quill, 1992
ISBN 10: 068811606XISBN 13: 9780688116064
Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Yale University Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 0300221797ISBN 13: 9780300221794
Seller: Goodwill Books, Hillsboro, OR, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Signs of wear and consistent use.
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Published by Mystic Seaport Museum, 2003
ISBN 10: 0939510820ISBN 13: 9780939510825
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by SEATTLE: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 2000, 2000
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good PLUS. SOFTCOVER.OBLONG.NF BOOK.PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.INSCRIBED BY BOCKSTOCE.
Published by Hakluyt Society, 1988
ISBN 10: 0904180247ISBN 13: 9780904180244
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 volumes.
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Published by Hearst Marine, NY, 1991
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. DJ has some light discoloration.
Published by The Hakluyt Society, London, 1988
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. foldin (illustrator). First Thus. Volume two only, a fine copy that does not appear to bave been read. No prior owner marks. No flaws on the dust jacket, which is not price clipped.
Published by Hearst Marine, 1991
Seller: Lot O'Books, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***GOOD CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES***EX-LIBRARY stamps stickers/marked out name, moderate edge wear, stamp on top/side/bottom,sticker remained on side of book & on inside of title page. We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Published by Nat Geographic Mag, 1990
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Aug, 1990, pp. 2-34, Profusely Illus with Color Photos, Incl FoldOut, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.
Published by Hakluyt Society, 1988
ISBN 10: 0904180255ISBN 13: 9780904180251
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
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Published by Hearst Marine Books, 1991
ISBN 10: 0688088392ISBN 13: 9780688088392
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Small discoloration on front pastedown & ffep. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with toning & small discolorations on inner side.
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal/Kingston, 2000
ISBN 10: 0773521534ISBN 13: 9780773521537
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with colour photographs and maps. Book.
Published by Washington D, 1992
Seller: Librería Vobiscum, SAN VICENTE DEL RASPEIG, Spain
Condition: Bueno. Washington D. C. 1990. National Geographic Society. Official journal of the National Geographic Society. August 1990. Volume 178. Number 2. 130 pp (aprox). 25 x 17. Rústica. Ilustrado. En Inglés.
Published by Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1977
Seller: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** no marks on text - price sticker on front - k-18-d.
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005
Seller: Chris Duggan, Bookseller, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.
Published by Hearst Marine Books, NY, 1991
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo; 256 pages.
Hardcover. Photos. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG+ book, VG+ D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED tp. Inked gift note on tp. A unique small boat journey in the great northern waterway. VG+ book, VG+ D/J. SIGNED. Bright/tight.
Published by New Bedford, Massachusetts: New Bedford Whaling Museum, by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, ., 1977
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Square quarto, softbound (stiff illus. wrappers), 127 pp. Very Good+, with light wear to wrappers. From Introduction: In the thirty years from 1880 to 1910, the American whalemen concentrated their efforts on pursuing the bowhead whale in the waters north of Bering Strait. A highly specialized endeavor, almost every aspect of the hunt was determined by one basic, inescapable fact: in the western Arctic, ice was seldom absent. The schedule of voyages, the gear and implements for taking whales, the clothing and rations for the crews, the vessels themselves -- all were designed or altered for survival and effective use in a harsh, ice-bound climate. Of the adaptations that sustained the bowhead fishery, the use of steam as an auxiliary source of power for the whaleship was the most radical departure from previous practice. Neither the idea nor the actual use of steam power on whaleships was new in 1879, when Mary and Helen, the first of the American steam whalers, was launched. Twenty years earlier, British whalemen had built the prototypes, Narwhal and Dundee, and so great did they find the advantages of steam in the Greenland fishery that the construction of new vessels and the conversion of old ones proceeded rapidly. By 1865, their sailing whaleships were obsolete. In Norway, experiments with steam were also underway. In Norway, experiments with steam were also underway. In 1863, Svend Foyn, an inventive whaling merchant, launched Spes & Fides, the first of the steam-powered catcher boats. Foyn's new craft not only adapted steam to the actual hunt for whales; it provided a stable platform that permitted the use of his other important invention, the large, explosive, cannon-fired harpoon. Together, the catcher boat and the large harpoon ushered in the technology of modern whale hunting, although their widespread use awaited the opening of the rich Antarctic whaling grounds. In 1909, as the American Arctic fishery expired, the Norwegians entered the south polar regions in force, bringing seventeen catcher boats and seven factory ships to operate from a base on South Georgia Island. The era of modern whaling had begun and the long American dominance of the fishery was over. For the Americans, there was little incentive to use steam power until the declining number of bowhead whales forced the whalemen to extend their search farther and farther into the Arctic. Only then could they justify the extra costs of power plants and the coal to fuel them. The tremendous success of Mary and Helen's maiden voyage resolved their calculations in a compelling way and led to the construction of ten steamers like her, all bark-rigged, strongly built, handsome vessels. Twelve other vessels -- older whaleships or onetime merchantmen -- were converted to auxiliary steam power, but unlike the British, the Americans never entirely gave up on the sailing whalers. Such well-known veterans of the fleet as Alice Knowles, Andrew Hicks, Charles W. Morgan and Wanderer, worked the Arctic bowhead grounds along with the steamers, but with increasing disadvantage. By 1906, they and most of the sailing whaleships that survived returned to New Bedford to finish out their days as sperm whalers in more temperate waters and kinder climates. The characteristics of the steam whalers and the history of their employment are the subjects of this publication, which is issued with a twofold purpose. It is meant to serve as a catalogue for a special exhibition at the Whaling Museum on "The Age of Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic," and to stand thereafter as a permanent contribution to knowledge about this last significant phase of American whaling history. The Museum's Curator of Ethnology, John R. Bockstoce, has undertaken the organization of the exhibition and the preparation of the publication, bringing to both tasks a scholar's familiarity with the records of the fishery and ten seasons of field experience on the land and water where its history was enacted. In a separate essay, William A. Baker, Curator of the Francis R. Hart Nautical Museum of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, applies the expertise of naval architect to the design and construction of the class of vessels built for that enterprise. To illustrate their essays, a generaous selection of photographs taken in the Arctic at the time provides a rare picture of one of the most adventuresome chapters in America's maritime history. Maritime, Whaling, Steam engine, Whaleships, Massachusetts, Americana, American History, U.S.-iana, United States Industry. zslic.
Published by London: The Hakluyt Society, 1988., 1988
Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 2 Volume set. Fold out map included. (inuit, alaska, discoveries in geography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
S Manuscript. None as Issued jacket. Slight Soiling on Last Page; Paperclipped, 32 pages. Small stain on top edge of title page.
Published by the History Bank / University of Washington Press, Seattle, Wash, 2000
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to spine and edges. Binding still fairly tight, pages age toned.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The extraordinary story of the author's voyage of 3500 miles through theArctic - the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east -traveling in an umiak - a traditional Eskimo boat. Profusely illustrated with photographs.
Published by Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, Mass., 1977
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
4to softcover 10 1/2" tall x 9 1/2" wide. 127 pages. Design and construction of Steam Whalers. Ship biographies with photos or paintings. Chronological list of commercial Wintering Voyages, 1850-1910 at back. Published at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Several small light stains on front cover. Text is clean and tightly bound. Very good condition.
Published by National Geographic Society. Washington. ., 1990
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
Volume 178, No.2, August 1990. Contains article from P.2 to 33 with 2 maps and 30 colour photos by Richard Olsenius. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Published by Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1977
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover book (127 pages) illustrated with numerous black and white photographs/reproductions. Moderate rubbing/scuffing on covers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-3-Middle-L) rareviewbooks.
Published by Quill / William Morrow, New York, 1992
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Quill edition. Trade paperback. 256pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing on page edges, near fine.
Published by Yale University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 0300149212ISBN 13: 9780300149210
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
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Published by Hearst Marine Books, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0688088392ISBN 13: 9780688088392
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First printing. 256 p., illus.