A savage history [electronic resource] : whaling in the Pacific and Southern oceans / John Newton.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, John, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
Whaling > South Pacific Ocean > History.
Whaling > Antarctic Ocean > History.
Whaling > Pacific Ocean > History.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
A Savage History: Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The slaughter of the leviathan
  • Whaling in ancient times
  • New South whales
  • Whaling among the Maori and missionaries
  • The business of whaling
  • The Pacific capital of whaling
  • The floating abattoir
  • Exploration and the whaling boom
  • The stockbroker and the artist
  • Whaling craft
  • Life, food, booze and sex
  • Women go whaling
  • Mechanised slaughter
  • The Norwegians in Western Australia
  • Ten thousand years of eating whale
  • Japan against the world
  • End game
  • What now for whales?
  • Whaleography.