Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America - Brossura

Dolin, Eric Jay

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ISBN 10: 0393331571 ISBN 13: 9780393331578

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

Riassunto

A social and economic history of whaling in America traces Captain John Smith's ill-fated expedition to the New World in 1614, through the industry's rise to its nineteenth-century golden years, to its decline in the twentieth century. Reprint.

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"I thought I learned everything I needed to know about whaling from Melville, but I was wrong. Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan exposes the rise and fall of the industry inspired by the great beasts of the deep . . . The excitement of the stories in this magnificently researched saga build and build." (Dava Sobel, Author of Longitude)

"A pleasantly anecdotal history of American whaling so comprehensive that he seems to have harpooned at least one fact from every cetacean text ever printed. Leviathan is a gentle book about a brutal industry." (Caleb Crain, The New Yorker)

"Leviathan will appeal most to history buffs and ocean lovers. . . . Exotic locations, colorful characters, melodrama and gore aplenty, but also food for thought." (Debby Applegate, Los Angeles Times)

"This volume reads like a history of America through whaling. . . . With a historian's diligence and a trivia nuts eye for oddities. He reels in the big one." (Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly)

" ...perfect summer reading, especially if you happen to be spending the summer by the sea, or on it. (Adam Kirsch - New York Sun )

Leviathan is an exhaustive, richly detailed history of industrial American whaling...Dolin succeeds admirably at what he sets out to do: tell the story of one of the strangest industries in American history. (Bruce Barcott - New York Times )

Eric Jay Dolin's lively and thorough history spans the rise, golden age, and decline of what was once one of New England's distinctive industries...Dolin chose to take on the subject in its broadest form, and if he leaves us wanting more, that is what good history does. (David Waldstreicher - The Boston Globe )

Starred Review. Engrossing account...at once grand and quirky, entertaining and informative. (Publishers Weekly )

Mr. Dolin handles this long, complex tale with great skill, both as a historian and as a writer (the bibliography and illustrations are splended too)...Leviathan is thoroughly engaging. --(John Steele Gordon - The Wall Street Journal )

L'autore:

Eric Jay Dolin is the author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, and also won a number of awards, including the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History and the twenty-third annual L. Byrne Waterman Award, given by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, for outstanding contributions to whaling research and history. His most recent book is Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade (W. W. Norton, July 2010), a national bestseller, was chosen by New West, The Seattle Times, and The Rocky Mountain Land Library as one of the top non-fiction books of 2010. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393331571
• ISBN 13: 9780393331578
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 479