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The Cruise of the Cachalot

The Cruise of the Cachalot

Bullen, Frank T.

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ISBN10: 160597661X
ISBN13: 9781605976617
Publisher: Standard Pubn Inc
Published: May 8 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.59 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: 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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