On the Northwest

On the Northwest
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9780774843157
ISBN-13 : 0774843152
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Book Synopsis On the Northwest by : Robert Lloyd Webb

Download or read book On the Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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