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The Dundee Whalers 1750-1914
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Norman Watson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-24 - Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

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This is a study of what was Britain's leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city's whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the w
The Dundee Whalers
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Norman Watson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: John Donald

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This is a study of what was Britain's leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city's whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the w
Maritime Labour
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Richard Gorski
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle Ages to the present. The spatial emphasis o
The Witches of Fife
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Stuart MacDonald
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-01 - Publisher: Birlinn

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Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what ha
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger / Volume I / The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: William Scoresby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he
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