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Hardcover Cloth 423 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Barnes and Noble Reprint edition 1993. Lovely grey boards with blue buckram 1/8 spine and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing and spotting. An unclipped dust jacket sporting HPB pricetags with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Although we generally think that man's association with the whale began some two centuries ago in New England, men have been hunting whales for nearly ten thousand years. A History of Whaling illuminates this fascinating aspect of human endeavor by combining many forgotten or neglected aspects of whaling with recent discoveries about whales themselves in a continuous, flowing narrative.
There are many concurrent themes running through whaling history, and… Read More