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Popular account of author's visit to Aleutian Islands to investigate problems of North Pacific Sea Products Co., a whaling company, in 1914-15.
Popular account of author's visit to Aleutian Islands to investigate problems of North Pacific Sea Products Co., a whaling company, in 1914-15.
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whalingin fact, their entire livelihoodwould be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, a new type of whaling using modern steel whale-catchers and harpoon cannons appeared along the Alaskan coast. Yet the Inuit and Inupiat continue whaling today from approximately 15 small towns scattered along the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. Whaling for these people is a life-or-death proposition in a land considered uninhabitable by many, for without the whale, whole villages probably could not survive as they have for centuries.
On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
Since 1926, includes the Annual statistical number, which supersedes the Pacific fisherman year book.
Provides sailing directions for Alaska coast from Yakutat Bay to Arctic Ocean. Contains descriptions of general character of coast, weather, tides, harbors and ports, government maritime services, medical relief, navigation aids, reporting of dangers procedure in case of distress, radio, weather reports, distress and emergency radio traffic, medical advice by radio, radio beacons, and radio direction finder stations.