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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The northern whale-fishery
William Scoresby
164 pages~3 hr 17 min read10 chapters$1.99
William Scoresby whaled in the Arctic seas and wrote the science of it. His account of the northern whale-fishery describes the hunt, the ice, and the great creatures of the polar ocean from firsthand knowledge. Rigorous, vivid, and rich with cold-water peril. A classic of Arctic whaling from a captain who was also a scientist. Sail into the ice after the whales of the far north.
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Inside this book
10 chapters
- 1THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4CHAPTER I.
- 5CHAPTER II.
- 6CHAPTER III.
- 7CHAPTER IV.
- 8CHAPTER V.
- 9CHAPTER VI.
- 10Transcriber’s Notes
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