Authors: Michele Torrey
ARTICLES:
Kusher, Howard I. “Hellships: Yankee Whaling Along the Coasts of Russian-America, 1835–1852.”
New England Quarterly
(March 1972): 81–95.
JOURNALS/LOGS
:
Abraham Barker
(ship). New Bedford, MA. Sept. 10, 1850–March 14, 1853. Master: Ichabod Norton. Providence, RI: Providence Public Library, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Abraham Barker
(ship). New Bedford, MA. July 21, 1853–April 27, 1857. Master: Abraham Barker, Jr. Providence, RI: Providence Public Library, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Addison
(ship). New Bedford, MA. Nov. 25, 1856–May 27, 1859. Master: Samuel Laurence. Keeper: Ebenezer Nickerson. Providence, RI: Providence Public Library, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Indian Chief
(ship). New London, CT. Jan. 7, 1849–May 8, 1852.
Master: Elisha M. Bailey. Keeper: Elisha M. Bailey. Mystic, CT: Marine Historical Association, Inc.
Peck, Alfred F. July 1856–June 1861. A retrospective journal con-taining an account of a voyage in an unnamed vessel, probably the bark
Covington
or
Warren
(August 16, 1856–October 1859). Master: Allen M. Newman. Providence, RI: Providence Public Library, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Smith, N. Byron.
History of a Three Years' Whaling Voyage: Being a true and authentic narrative of the accidents, incidents, and events which happened during a voyage, taken by the author, to the Indian and North Pacific Oceans, in the years 1851, 1852, and 1853.
Kent, OH: Kent State University.
MAPS/ATLASES
:
Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center.
Chukchi Sea: Bering Strait—Icy Cape—Physical and Biological Character of Alaskan Coastal Zone and Marine Environment.
Anchorage, AK: University of Alaska, 1975.
United States Geological Survey.
All Topo Maps: Alaska!
Salt Lake City, UT: iGage Mapping Corporation, 2000.
THESES
:
Moore, Golda Pauline. “Hawaii During the Whaling Era, 1820– 1880.” Master's thesis, University of Hawaii, 1934.
VIDEOS
:
Hurley, Dr. Frank.
South: Ernest Shackleton and the
Endurance
Expedition.
Harrington Park, NJ: Milestone Film & Video, 1999.
Mystic Seaport Museum.
On Board the
Morgan:
America's Last Wooden Whaler.
Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum Film-Video Services, 1992.
National Audubon Video.
Whales!
Stamford, CT: Vestron Video, 1989.
National Film Board of Canada.
Champions of the Wild: Polar Bears.
Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1998.
New Zealand National Film Unit
. Whales
. New York: Brighton Video, 1988.
WEB
SITES
:
Chance, Norman A. “Changing Patterns of Subsistence.” Adapted from
The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1990.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Inupiat/ changingecon.html
.
Falconer, William.
William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
, 1780 edition. South Seas.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/ southseas/refs/falc/contents.html
or
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/ refs/falc/contents.html.
Hughes, Charles C. “Eskimo.”
http://alaskan.com/docs/eskimo.html.
International Whaling Commission.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/ iwc.htm.
Lundberg, Murray. “Thar She Blows! Whaling in Alaska and the Yukon.” ExploreNorth.
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/ yafeatures/bl-whaling.htm.
New Bedford Whaling Museum.
http://www.whalingmuseum.org.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “Imprint of the Past: The Ecological History of New Bedford Harbor.”
http://www.epa. gov/nbh/html/whaling.html.
BOOKS
:
Albanov, Valerian.
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Alexander, Caroline.
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Allen, Everett S.
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. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
Ansel, Willits D.
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Ashley, Clifford W.
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Bartlett, Robert A.
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Karluk
's Last Voyage: An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic.
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Bockstoce, John R.
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in the Western Arctic.
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Bodfish, Waldo, Sr.
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Boeri, David.
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Chance, Norman A.
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Church, Albert Cook.
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Cook, John A.
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Damas, David, ed.
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Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
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Ellis, Leonard Bolles.
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Garner, Stanton, ed.
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Addison,
1856–1860.
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Giddings, James Louis.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.
Haley, Nelson Cole.
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Charles W. Morgan,
1849– 1853.
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Hall, Daniel Weston.
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Harland, John.
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Harlow, Frederick Pease.
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Herman, Lewis, and Marguerite Shalett Herman.
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Hess, Bill.
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Holmes, Rev. Lewis.
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Citizen,
of New Bedford, together with a brief history of whaling.
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Howland, Chester S.
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Humble, Richard.
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Leavitt, John F.
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.
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Lee, Molly, and Gregory A. Reinhardt.
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Lever, Darcy.
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McCabe, Marsha.
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Melville, Herman.
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Mullett, J. C.
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Munger, James F.
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1852. Reprint, Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1987.
Norling, Lisa.
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Oswalt, Wendell H.
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Parry, Richard.
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Pease, Zephaniah W.
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Pease, Z. W., and George A. Hough.
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Philbrick, Nathaniel.
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Rennick, Penny, ed.
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Ricketson, Daniel.
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Robertson, R. B.
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. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
Shackleton, Ernest.
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Endurance
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New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.
Sherman, Stuart C., et al., eds.
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New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1986.
Spears, John R.
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New York: Macmillan, 1922.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.
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New York: Macmillan, 1951.
Stevens, Rolland Elwell.
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Anchorage, AK: Alaska Geographic Society, 1978.
Wilbur, C. Keith.
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Chester, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1986.
Williams, Harold, ed.
One Whaling Family.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to the following people: To my fellow writer and fellow Washingtonian Ron Wanttaja for his help with nautical jargon, details, and technicalities; to Michael Dyer, librarian at the Kendall Institute, New Bedford Whaling Museum, for his expert advice on whaling and for his encouragement to “go with it”; and finally to Ann Day at the Tuzzy Consortium Library, Ilisagvik College, in Barrow, Alaska, for providing me with hard-to-find information on pre-contact Inupiat peoples. All opinions expressed in this book are solely mine. If there are any remaining errors, they are my responsibility alone, as to write a story of this nature it often becomes necessary to perform a balancing act between fact and fiction.
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