Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Below Eagle Town

2 Cruising Over the Ground

3 Ominous Visitations

4 Glancing Blows

5 Warring on Whales

6 Skytteren

7 Consolidated Whaling

8 In the Meat Business

Appendices

A The Journal of the Caroline on the Northwest Coast, September 1843

B The Rose Harbour Whaling Station, 1928 Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

One of the most important books ever written about whaling. -- William M. Fowler, Jr., Log of Mystic Seaport

About the Author

Robert Lloyd Webb is the curator at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine.

Reviews

Solid scholarship and showy style. On the Northwest is a substantial and readable addition to the published history of whaling ... Webb has written a superior, robust work of whaling scholarship that also provides an unusual slant on regional history.
*International Journal of Maritime History*

Extremely able and well-written.
*The Beaver*