In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling

by Kenn Harper

Book Overview

In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these whalemen in the North would irrevocably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772271799
• ISBN13: 9781772271799
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Inhabit Media
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"