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Arctic Harpooner : A Voyage on the Schooner Abbie Bradford, 1878-1879 / Robert Ferguson; ed. by Leslie Dalrymple Stair.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1936Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512811476
  • 9781512815832
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 639.2
LOC classification:
  • G545
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. From New Bedford to Iceland and to Hudson Strait -- Chapter II . The Passage through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay -- Chapter III. Whaling in Hudson Bay and Roes Welcome -- Chapter IV. The Franklin Search Party and the End of the Whaling Season -- Chapter V. Getting into Winter Quarters at Marble Island -- Chapter VI. The Beachcomber's Story of a Brutal Officer -- Chapter VII. Frozen in for the Winter -- Chapter VIII. Winter Visitors -- Chapter IX. A Deer Hunt and other Excursions -- Chapter Χ. Interesting Native Customs -- Chapter XI. Cutting the Ships Out of the Ice -- Chapter XII. A Caribou and Musk Ox Hunting Trip -- Chapter XIII. Out of the Harbor Into Open Water Again -- Chapter XIV. Whaling in Roes Welcome and Repulse Bay -- Chapter XV. The Short Whaling Season Comes to a Close -- Chapter XVI. Farewell to Native Friends and Marble Island -- Chapter XVII. Through Hudson Strait and the Story of Norman MacDonald -- Chapter XVIIII. The Voyage Back Home to New Bedford
Summary: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. From New Bedford to Iceland and to Hudson Strait -- Chapter II . The Passage through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay -- Chapter III. Whaling in Hudson Bay and Roes Welcome -- Chapter IV. The Franklin Search Party and the End of the Whaling Season -- Chapter V. Getting into Winter Quarters at Marble Island -- Chapter VI. The Beachcomber's Story of a Brutal Officer -- Chapter VII. Frozen in for the Winter -- Chapter VIII. Winter Visitors -- Chapter IX. A Deer Hunt and other Excursions -- Chapter Χ. Interesting Native Customs -- Chapter XI. Cutting the Ships Out of the Ice -- Chapter XII. A Caribou and Musk Ox Hunting Trip -- Chapter XIII. Out of the Harbor Into Open Water Again -- Chapter XIV. Whaling in Roes Welcome and Repulse Bay -- Chapter XV. The Short Whaling Season Comes to a Close -- Chapter XVI. Farewell to Native Friends and Marble Island -- Chapter XVII. Through Hudson Strait and the Story of Norman MacDonald -- Chapter XVIIII. The Voyage Back Home to New Bedford

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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