Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age

by Stephen Mullins

A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia

For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia's northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817320245
• ISBN13: 9780817320249
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"