A savage history: the story of whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans PDF
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A Savage History To many, the history of whaling has illuminated the best and worst characteristics of mankind. In early days, it demonstrated his courage and endurance, as he matched his wits against the giants of the sea for a miserable wage. In the modern era, it has pinpointed his inhumanity and total disregard for the affliction of suffering, in hunting these splendid creatures almost to extinction, with small risk to the hunter and using equipment and weapons which give the whale no chance of escape. Max Colwell Whaling Around Australia J O h n n e W t O n A S a va ge Hi s t o r y Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans Abbreviations Measurements ASDIC echo sounder, named after the Allied Ton refers to the imperial measure equal to Submarine Detection Investigation 2240 pounds or approximately 1016 kilograms, Committee whereas tonne denotes the metric measure equal ESA Endangered Species Act to 1000 kilograms. ICR Institute of Cetacean Research IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature IWC International Whaling Commission A NewSouth book Published by NewSouth Publishing University of New South Wales Press Ltd University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA This project has been assisted by the Australian newsouthpublishing.com Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. © John Newton 2013 First published 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, Design Di Quick criticism or review, as permitted under the Cover and endpapers Whale breaching, Corbis; Copyright Act, no part of this book may be Whale breaching, Thomas Ryan, National reproduced by any process without written Library of New Zealand permission. Inquiries should be addressed to Printer Everbest the publisher. All reasonable efforts were taken to obtain National Library of Australia permission to use copyright material reproduced Cataloguing-in-Publication entry in this book, but in some cases copyright could Author: Newton, John (John Sefton) not be traced. The author welcomes information Title: A savage history: Whaling in the Pacific in this regard. and Southern Oceans/John Newton. This book is printed on paper using fibre supplied ISBN: 9781742233741(hbk) from plantation or sustainably managed forests 9781742241432(epub) 9781742246321(epdf) 9781742243887(mobi) Subjects: Whaling – Pacific Ocean– History. Whaling – South Pacific Ocean – History. Dewey Number: 639.2809164 Contents Introduction 13 1 The Slaughter of the Leviathan 17 2 Whaling in Ancient Times 29 3 New South Whales 37 4 Whaling Among the Maori and Missionaries 55 5 The Business of Whaling 75 6 The Pacific Capital of Whaling 85 7 The Floating Abattoir 97 8 Exploration and the Whaling Boom 117 9 The Stockbroker and the Artist 143 10 Whaling Craft 165 11 Life, Food, Booze and Sex 181 12 Women Go Whaling 197 13 Mechanised Slaughter 207 14 The Norwegians in Western Australia 221 15 Ten Thousand Years of Eating Whale 229 16 Japan Against the World 239 17 End Game 253 18 What Now for Whales? 269 Whaleography 277 Bibliography 299 Acknowledgments 301 Picture credits 302 Index 306 6 red bay, newfoundland neah bay washington north america nantucket south japan america moda island taiji kochi wakayama south georgia cape horn king edward cove 7 paulet island snow hill bay australia hervey bay shark bay moreton island point lookout stradbroke island byron fremantle carnac island fowlers bay bathers beach mosman bay sceale bay sydney bennelong pt manly cove esperance beach cape leeuwin cheynes beach thistlec iasplaen bdu ffon frenchman bay kangaroo island albany victor harbour great granite island australian twofold bay boydtown bight onkaparinga portlapwnodarr tb rfanayairmybool otway bass strait cape barren islands kelly basin coles bay kelly point hobart schouten island slopen island maria island south west cape storm bay recherche bay doubtless bay cloudy baybruny island kororareka bay new zealand kapiti island tipi bay fishing bay te awaiti cook strait port underwood kakapo bay kaikoura otago harbour wellers rock macquarie island victoria land antarctica 8 ross sea marie byrd land blue whale surfacing. sea of cortez, california, mexico byron mosman bay bennelong pt manly cove twofold bay boydtown cape barren islands whaleboat showing position of crew, early nineteenth century Contents 9 marie byrd land 10 A Savage History
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