Scottish Arctic Whaling
- Publisher
- Birlinn Limited
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2019
- Category
- Social History, Fisheries & Aquaculture
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781906566777
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $30
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Description
Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen east-coast Scottish ports, harvested more than 20,000 bowhead whales at East Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
About the author
Chesley W. Sanger is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography, Memorial University. His research interests include historical geography and marine resources, and Newfoundland shore-based whaling. Among his published works is the book (with A.B. Dickinson), Twentieth-Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador.
