Tim D. Smith assembled a team of scientists and historians to determine the effect that 19th century American offshore whaling had on whales. In 2010, the team finished up a 10-year project of ...

So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts, was still the center of the whaling industry in the early 19th century. But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had ...

Many critics were impressed with the detailed account of whaling voyages ... Despite being considered among the best poems of the 19th century, Battle-Pieces sold a meager 486 copies.

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) is proud to present “A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ...

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade ... In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in ...

In 1897, the former whaling ship RV Belgica left Antwerp ... are expanding their range on islands near the peninsula. In the 19th century, going to Antarctica was a perilous journey, pushing ...

This jaunty 19th century earworm, sung so earnestly by a ... this was the same year New Zealand banned whaling. Thus ended a horrific form of hunting that began in 1791, when British ships ...