Download or read book Whales of the Northwest written by Charles F Flaherty and published by Seattle, Wash. : Cherry Lane Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
Download or read book Whelks to Whales written by Rick M. Harbo and published by Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2000 BC Book Award and a BC Bestseller
Download or read book Whales of the Northwest Territories written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Northwest s Whaling Coast written by Dale Vinnedge and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Northwest waters from Alaska to Oregon lie between the Arctic whaling grounds and the home whaling ports of San Francisco and Honolulu. While the Pacific Northwest was not a whaling destination, whales in these rich grounds were pursued for many years as whale ships moved between the whalers' summer whaling grounds and southern home ports. After 1900, whaling in the north Pacific changed from sailing ships to modern, steam-powered iron ships and harpoon cannons. Land stations were built along southern Alaska, Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and Washington State. The new "killer" ships brought whales to these land stations for flensing and for rendering into oil, fertilizer, and other products. Most of these products were shipped to Seattle and San Francisco on steamers and factory ships at the end of the season. At the start of the season, supplies and workers were shipped up from Seattle to resupply and repopulate the stations.
Download or read book Whales of the West Coast written by David A. E. Spalding and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whales of the West Coast is the whale book we have been waiting for. -Anne Moon, Victoria Times-Colonist Excerpted in Canadian Forum
Download or read book West Whaling written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whelks to Whales written by Rick M. Harbo and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated in 2010 with additional photographs and up-to-date names, this full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters and beachcombers. It is a ready reference to more than 400 of the most common species, the fascinating local sponges, jellyfish, crabs, shrimp, barnacles, clams, snails, seals, fish, whales, sea algae and hundreds of other living things that can be observed and identified without being disturbed. The book is arranged for quick identification with colour-coded sections, full-colour photographs and comprehensive but concise information on size, range, habitat and facts of interest about each species. A glossary, checklist, reading list and full index are included.
Download or read book Gone Whaling written by Douglas Hand and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the darkened halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Douglas Hand encountered a killer whale with the head of a man emerging from the blowhole. This puzzling and haunting specter was carved on a worn cedar totem pole of the Haida, Native Americans of the Northwest coast. What indigenous wisdom inspired orca and human to be wrought together in wood? Indeed, where does one species begin and the other end? Gone Whaling is the exquisitely rendered account of a journey to the waters of the Pacific Northwest to find answers to those questions as well as to track down the essence of orca, that wildest of animals. The quest takes the author first to the Vancouver Aquarium, where he encounters orcas in tanks and scientists who blur the lines between research and showmanship. Moving out to the San Juan Islands, he locates Ken Balcolm, marine biologist and orca census-taker, who deciphers the familial dynamics of the whales by tracking their far migrations. From there, he is led to the controversial researcher Paul Spong - known as the "patron saint of the whales" - who is mapping the clicks and squeaks the orcas make as they travel by his home on remote Hansen Island. But science can go only so far in providing a real understanding of the mystery of these creatures of the sea, so Douglas Hand turns to the last remaining Haida totem carvers to explain what orca means. In the end, he is inspired to take on the dangerous waters himself in a one-man kayak to encounter his own orca. Gone Whaling is rich with natural history and human stories. The mysterious and deeply complex behavior of orcas is described with crystalline detail and style. The inquiry itself is infusedwith the author's boundless curiosity and tempered with his wry humor. This luminous and confident book appeals to the part of us all that has pondered the deep rift between humans and other creatures, between the modern and the primitive. There is an old Haida belief that a good life is rewarded by death and rebirth as an orca. Therefore, you should treat the orca well that swims close to shore, for it may be your ancestor. This special book probes the boundary that separates and binds humans to killer whales, and humans to the natural order.
Download or read book Whales Dolphins and Porpoises written by Kenneth S. Norris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Resident Killer Whale Community of the Pacific Northwest written by Christy L. Sims and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Training Range Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Mammals of the Pacific Northwest written by Pieter Folkens and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This FoldingGuide™ includes 35 marine mammals commonly seen on the Pacific Northwest coast from Oregon up through British Columbia. Includes Baleen, Sperm, and Beaked whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, otters and more.
Download or read book Population Studies of Killer Whales Orcinus Orca in the Pacific Northwest written by Albert W. Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mammals in the Seas written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Working Party on Marine Mammals and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Whales written by James David Darling and published by SummerWild Productions. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes three populations of whales : killer whales in the Pacific Northwest; gray whales along the North American west coast; and humpbacks in the North Pacific.
Download or read book A Mariner s Guide to Whales in the Northwest Atlantic written by Véronique Nolet and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
