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University of Sunderland Press, Published 2001. Paperback, 157 pp., 16 pp. of plates; 25 cm; first published 2001; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and color reproductions of paintings, maps.
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In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers with whaling scene painting; light surface wear; binding sound; interior pages clean and unmarked.[From back cover] During the century 1750-1850, North East England was one of the most important centres of British whaling enterprise. From Berwick in the north to Whitby in the south, stoutly built whaling ships sailed annually to the Arctic grounds in search of the Greenland whale. Their voyages sustained a shore-based processing and distribution industry of considerable value. But hunting whales from open boats, with hand-held harpoons, in sub-zero temperatures was not a venture for the faint hearted. It called for the specialist skills of the 'Greenlanders' and North East England was renowned for them. The Whaling Trade of North East England 1750-1850, is the first comprehensive, academic account of this fascinating aspect of the maritime heritage of the region. It traces the origins and economic history of Arctic whaling as it was conducted from local ports, the ships it employed and the social history of the men who sailed in them. . ."more wild and uncouth, more rough and blasphemous, more swayed by superstition, than any other seamen under the British flag" . . .