| #2608456 in Books | Arcadia Publishing | 2014-05-05 | 2014-05-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.31 x6.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 128 pages | ||About the Author|Dale Vinnedge is a recognized expert on international whaling. He is past president of the Friends of the National Maritime Museum Library, and research for this book took him to some of these traditional whaling villages along the Alaskan coast
In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whaling―in fact, their entire livelihood―would be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new tra...
You easily download any file type for your device.Alaska's Whaling Coast (Images of America) | Dale Vinnedge. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
