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Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...
...Quakers invented the notion), countinghouses and fo'c'sles. Finally, in a chapter that begins on page 210, this whole sea catalogue reaches the subject announced in the second half of its subtitle: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet...
...veldt and forest clearings-were painted by Francis Lee Jaques, the Illinois-born ornithologist and nature artist. Jaques, who died in 1969, at the age of 81, was also well known for his oil paintings and stark black-and-white drawings of wild life, and he cheerfully withstood Arctic cold and tropical heat to bring back such quarry on paper. To accompany many pictures (including 65 bird and animal paintings in color) Florence Page Jaques, the artist's wife, provides a fond account of her husband's enduring passion for the out-of-doors...
...Arctic icebergs, normally far smaller, would probably melt away before reaching Northern Hemisphere processing points...
...world, far north of the Arctic Circle, snow falls only in the summer. The rest of the year is too cold for precipitation, for vegetation and, one would suppose, for human life. Yet a few hundred nomadic polar Eskimos prowl the icy region, always shadowed by the imminence of death from cold or starvation. They describe themselves simply as Inuit...