Finding the mighty whales : eighteenth century Nantucket whaling and the development of environmental knowledge ...
When Nantucket whalemen moved from a shore based fishery to one prosecuted on the high seas, they had to devise a system to locate whale populations. To do this, the whalemen systematically recorded their observations of the ocean and whales and developed a knowledge of the environment. This knowled...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0071259 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0071259 |