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- Author: Frank T Bullen
- Publisher: Book Jungle
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 280
- ISBN-10: 160597661X
- ISBN-13: 9781605976617
- Format: 19.1 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In the following pages an attempt has been made--it is believed for the first time--to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint. Two very useful books have been published--both of them over half a century ago--on the same subject; but, being written by the surgeons of whale- ships for scientific purposes, neither of them was interesting to the general reader. ["Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe," by F Debell Bennett, F.R.C.S. (2 vols). Bentley, London (1840). "The Sperm Whale Fishery," by Thomas Beale, M.R.C.S. London (1835).] They have both been long out of print; but their value to the student of natural history has been, and still is, very great, Dr. Beale's book, in particular, being still the authority on the sperm whale..."
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- Author: Frank T Bullen
- Publisher: Book Jungle
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 280
- ISBN-10: 160597661X
- ISBN-13: 9781605976617
- Format: 19.1 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In the following pages an attempt has been made--it is believed for the first time--to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint. Two very useful books have been published--both of them over half a century ago--on the same subject; but, being written by the surgeons of whale- ships for scientific purposes, neither of them was interesting to the general reader. ["Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe," by F Debell Bennett, F.R.C.S. (2 vols). Bentley, London (1840). "The Sperm Whale Fishery," by Thomas Beale, M.R.C.S. London (1835).] They have both been long out of print; but their value to the student of natural history has been, and still is, very great, Dr. Beale's book, in particular, being still the authority on the sperm whale..."
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