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Tag Archives: First Mate
Just when you thought sharks were the only animals to avoid while in the ocean, it seems some angry whales are in attack mode. Whale Attack in Queensland A giant Humpback Whale attacked a 30-foot fishing boat below the water line last week in Queensland, Australia. The pressure from the whale threw the charter boat, Continue Reading »
August 23, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Angry Whales, audiobooks, Captain Oliver Gales, Equator, Essex Whale-Ship, First Mate, Herman Melville, Humpback Whale, Listen to Read, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, Orca Whale Little Biorka Island, Owen Chase, Pacific Ocean, Queensland Australia, Sitka Alaska, Victor Littlefield, “Jaws”, “Moby Dick”
The brutal murder of the earth’s whale population for many years has had animal rights activists up in arms. Today, most countries have agreed to stop the atrocious killing. Japan, Norway and Iceland are the only three countries which sanction whale hunting. According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, these three countries kill 2000 whales Continue Reading »
July 15, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, American Whaleship, Andre Stojka, Antarctica, audio book, Australia, beluga caviar, blubber, Charles Homans, environmental crime, First Mate, five year Soviet economic plan, Herman Melville, Humpback Whales, Iceland, International Whaling Commission, Japan, killing whales, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Media and Public Policy, Miller-McCune Center for Research, Monster whale, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, New York Times, New Zealand, Nippon Research Center, Norway, Odessa, Owen Chase, Pacific Ocean, Petroleum, Publisher, Sovetkaya Rossiya, Soviet Union, Soviet Whalers, sturgeon, The Pacific Standard, Ukraine, Whale meat, whale oil, Whales, whaleship Essex, World War II, “Moby Dick”
In the 1800s, American whaling was a brutal, murderous undertaking. It was carried out by tough crewmen, on tall ships, based in Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, who were not afraid of huge whales. They were about to learn a frightening lesson. After the American Revolutionary War, whalers had decimated the whale population in Continue Reading »
December 12, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Acusnet, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobook, cannibalism, Captain Ahab, Essex, First Mate, First Mate of the Essex, Herman Melville, kerosene, leviathans of the deep, Listen2Read, Nantucket, New Bedford, Owen Chase, tall ships, whale ship, whaleboat, Whales, Whaling, “Moby Dick”, “Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex”
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