Word: whaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them backed up by photographs in his book, to be himself convinced. Reassuring is the fact that out of several hundred varieties of shark, only about seven have either the disposition or dental equipment to be man-eaters. They are the Blue, Great White, Tiger, Hammerhead, Brown, Australian Whaler and Gray Nurse sharks. Even these are not likely to attack unless maddened by the smell of blood or fresh meat in the water. Most sharks are cowards, easily frightened off by a little hand-waving or water-splashing...
...Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk. When he was private secretary to the Warden of Iowa's State Prison, and editing the prison magazine, one of the convicts reproved him for writing a sentimental story about a crook. Williamson took heed...
...fifth day the whaler Globe 5 sighted Captain Riiser-Larsen, his two companions and his stiff-legged dog and picked them up as they were being blown seaward on a chip of ice 100 yd. long, 50 yd. wide...
...settlement coquettish women made advances by biting their larger fleas in two, swallowing one half, tossing the other half at him. At last he reached the Arctic tundra, exchanged his horse and cart for reindeers and sledge. Reaching the Bear Islands he stayed there with Eskimos until a whaler came by, took off to the waters north of Novaya Zemlya, "where the ocean flowed like a huge river among the icebergs...
...leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from 20% to 40% of the funds finally collected" from the public. That leader's "entire claim to fame, perhaps, rests on his once having made a trip to the Arctic as mate of a whaler." But he poses with a foot on a dead polar bear and gets the pictures in rotogravure sections of newspapers. During the expedition "strange rumors of dissension in the camp begin to percolate through the public consciousness, but are promptly quashed. . . ." Upon its return, "each member of the party gets...