Research Catalog

Title

Arctic whalers, icy seas : narratives of the Davis Strait whale fishery / W. Gillies Ross.

Author

Ross, W. Gillies (William Gillies), 1931-

Publication

Toronto, Canada : Irwin Pub., ©1985.

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Details

Description

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations; 25 x 27 cm

Summary

Compilation of first-person accounts from journals and diaries from whaling expeditions to Davis Strait from British ports from 1824 to 1917. Includes much previously unpublished material.

Subject

• Whaling > Arctic regions > History
• Whaling > Greenland > History
• Whaling > Great Britain > History
• Travel
• Whaling
• Walfang
• Baleines > Chasse > Histoire. > Arctique
• Davis Strait > Description and travel
• Atlantic Ocean > Davis Strait
• Arctic Regions
• Great Britain
• Greenland
• Arktis

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [255]-256.

Contents

This immense body of ice -- We seemed to stand alone -- The dreary coasts -- Nothing seems to gratify -- The grim tyrant -- Each day the frost more bitter -- A young Eskimo of considerable intelligence -- Hot and greasy blood -- To form a sort of settlement -- Snug for the winter -- Desperate voyage -- Reflections of a whaling captain -- You may never see your Thornton again -- The age of chivalry -- The inhabitants of the Arctic.

ISBN

• 0772515247
• 9780772515247

LCCN

86107713

OCLC

• ocm13132760
• 13132760
• SCSB-1169884

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library