Word: whaler
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...ability to combine a keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around. I remember a day a few years ago at his home in Stonington, Conn., when, racing his Boston Whaler to a distant beach at a terrifying clip, he had my young daughters shrieking with excitement while simultaneously quizzing me on the possible business models for journalism online. He was a multitasker before the word (which he surely would have hated) was invented...
...this small fishing town, where sea mammals have long been considered a reliable source of protein. Taiji (pop. 3,600) is proudly regarded as the birthplace of Japan's 400-year-old whaling industry. But Hisato Ryono, a local assemblyman whose uncle used to work as a commercial whaler, is having second thoughts about schools serving his sons flippered fare. Not because he is finally bowing to international opposition to the hunting of dolphins, which scientists rank among the most intelligent animals. Or because he is suddenly horrified by Taiji's annual dolphin cull, which starts in September and ends...
...Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe" by Gregory Gibson. The author discovered the notebook of one of the sailors who rescued the men left on the island after the mutiny. Says the publisher, "Part detective story, part American epic, 'Demon of the Waters' viscerally captures the charged atmosphere of the whaler, the influence of the sperm oil industry on American policies and politics, the price of civilization and the fate of those unfortunates who found themselves marooned on Samuel Comstock's fantasy kingdom...
...HEART OF THE SEA The 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex, the event that inspired Moby Dick, is thrillingly retold by Nathaniel Philbrick...
...5.IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: The 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex, the event that inspired "Moby-Dick," is thrillingly retold by Nathaniel Philbrick...