The Last Voyage Of The Whaling Bark Progress
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Author | : Daniel Gifford |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476640076 |
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The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of the Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece.
Author | : Jamie L. Jones |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1469674831 |
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Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
Author | : Progress (Bark) |
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Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Arctic Ocean |
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Log, kept by Frederick A. Barker, relating to a whaling voyage to the South Pacific and Arctic oceans and Chukchi seas. Includes descriptions of types of whales seen or taken (blackfish, blue, bowhead, finback, humpback, killer, and right), indigenous people, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, and shipwrecks; and inventories of whale oil and bone and poems. Other places represented include Guadalupe Island.
Author | : United States. Congress. House |
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Total Pages | : 1274 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Total Pages | : 1194 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Download Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, Submitted the Following Report Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Download Mr. Warren, from the Committee on Claims, Submitted the Following Report: [To Accompany S. 1010.] Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Alpheus Hyatt Verrill |
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Offshore whaling |
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Download The Real Story of the Whaler Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Nickerson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101661658 |
Download The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic. This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.