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On the Northwest

Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967

by (author) Robert Lloyd Webb

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843157
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774802925
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

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.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Robert Lloyd Webb is the curator at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine.

Editorial Reviews

Extremely able and well-written.

The Beaver

Solid scholarship and showy style. On the Northwest is a substantial and readable addition to the published history of whaling ... Webb has written a superior, robust work of whaling scholarship that also provides an unusual slant on regional history.

International Journal of Maritime History