Word: harpooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston brought back a few examples, persuaded the nonprofit Canadian Handicrafts Guild to put Eskimo carvings on sale. They sold like hotcakes, and each year Houston traveled north for more supplies. Later, the guild put out booklets filled with helpful advice to the Eskimo artists. Sample: "Man throwing harpoon, or spearing through ice ... If they are carefully carved and polished, the kabloona [white man] will buy them...
Even as the Journal appeared, Dr. White was out .on another whale chase, off Southern California. This time all the whales (of a bigger species) got away, but Dr. White is determined to get a harpoon into one sometime soon. In his whale hunting, as in his study of circus elephants and mice, Dr. White has a serious purpose: to show that in human patients the "normal" range of heartbeats as measured by EKG time intervals must be widened to allow for differences in the size of the heart. A newborn baby's heart beats twice as fast...
...last, but nearly finished himself, he lashes the enormous dead fish to the side-it is two feet longer than the skiff-and heads for home. Then come the hijacking sharks. At first the old man kills them as they come in to attack his catch; then, his harpoon lost in one, his knife broken off in another, he gives in to the inevitable. What he brings in before dawn is a stripped skeleton, 18 feet long, which astonishes all who see it when day breaks. Wearily the old man asks himself what beat him out there. He answers himself...
...fisherman was not having his leg pulled, as he huffily assumed. Gavin Maxwell, the young man in the sweater, was not a fisher of trout but of basking sharks-creatures "as large as a London bus," that roam the bays and lochs of western Scotland. Harpoon Venture, Maxwell's account of four years of shark-shooting, is a natural for vacation reading. But it also has a secondary theme that many people will find more interesting than the main...
...HARPOON VENTURE (304 pp.)-Gavin Maxwell-Viking...