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372 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780771042072
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 11 October 1997
Description
In the 1870s whaling was North America’s biggest business. Successful voyages south, to the warm waters of Melville’s great white whale, or north, to the Arctic, brought back ships laden with the whale oil that lit the lamps of the civilized world...
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372 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780771042072
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 11 October 1997
Description
In the 1870s whaling was North America’s biggest business. Successful voyages south, to the warm waters of Melville’s great white whale, or north, to the Arctic, brought back ships laden with the whale oil that lit the lamps of the civilized world...