In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling

Volume three of this series shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.

About the author

Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. "Taissumani," his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News.

Summary

Volume three of this series shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.

Additional text

"In this third volume of his In Those Days series, historian Kenn Harper gives a rare glimpse into the treacherous lives of 19th-century Arctic whalers, who followed the bowhead whale migration into the Canadian Arctic. Through harrowing first-hand accounts from journals and rare historical photographs, the book tells the stories of Arctic whalers, their pursuit of whale bone and oil, and the lasting impression they left on the Inuit with whom they interacted."—Canadian Geographic

Product details

• Authors: Kenn Harper
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2019
• EAN: 9781772271799
• ISBN: 978-1-77227-179-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: In Those Days: Collected Writi; In Those Days: Collected Writi; In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Nunavut, HISTORY / Native American, HISTORY / Canada / General