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Good. No jacket. Light stains and storage dents to boards. Info clipped from jacket stapled to endpaper. Mild storage marks at textblock edge. Contents appear unread. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 512 p. Contains: Illustrations.
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Fair. **PLEASE READ** The cover shows heavy wear. **PLEASE READ** The cover has curled corners. **PLEASE READ** There is a significant bend on the cover of this book! ! **PLEASE READ** Significant bending to pages and cover! FAST shipping, FREE tracking, and GREAT customer service! We also offer EXPEDITED and TWO DAY shipping options on qualifying orders.
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. Size: 6x1x9; 1st printing of 1st edition, as stated and with complete number line. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Top edge of text block has a remainder dot and a stain. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket looks nice. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($27.95 price intact). Published by Norton, 2007. Octavo. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with very light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Published:
2007
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14487159270
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Very good in Very good jacket. 479, [1] pages. Notes. Select Bibliography. Illustration Credits. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Eric Jay Dolin (born 1961) is an American author who writes history books, which often focus on maritime topics, wildlife, and the environment. He has published eleven books, which have won numerous awards. Dolin has worked as a program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; an environmental consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton (MD) and Environmental Resources Limited (London); an intern at the National Wildlife Federation, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and for Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. on Capitol Hill; a fisheries policy analyst at the National Marine Fisheries Service; a technical writer for the National Transportation Safety Board; a PEW research fellow at Harvard Law School; and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at Business Week. Derived from a Kirkus review: Dolin compellingly examines whaling's importance to America's early growth and wealth. The author traces the industry's development, from whale hunting by eighth-century Basques to the introduction of whale products throughout Europe by the 17th century. The American settlers saw Indians cutting up pilot whales and soon tried "drift" whaling themselves. Nantucket took the lead first in drift whaling and then in shore whaling, rowing out to harpoon leviathans swimming near the coast. The island's hardworking settlers launched sea hunting for the sperm whale and its three lucrative components: oil for clean lighting, spermaceti for medicinal elixirs and candles, ambergris as a fixative for perfumes. Dolin goes through the facets of sperm-whale hunting, detailing the life aboard whaling vessels, then moving on to describe the dangerous chase for an elusive prey, followed by the processing of its carcass. By the early 1850s, whaling entered the golden age Herman Melville depicted in Moby-Dick. The discovery of crude oil during the late 1850s produced kerosene that soon supplanted whale oil as the principal source of lamp fuel. Dolin ends with the final voyage of New Bedford's last whaling ship in 1924.
