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Leviathan : the history of whaling in America by Dolin, Eric Jay is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Leviathan : the history of whaling in America about?
Leviathan selected as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Providence Journal. Leviathan was also chosen by Amazon.com's editors as one of the 10 best history books of 2007. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," proclaimed Herman Melville, and the vivid story of whaling is one of the mightiest themes in American history. Indeed, much of America's culture, economy, and even its spirit were literally and figuratively rendered from the bodies of whales. In Leviathan, the first one-volume history of American whaling in many decades, historian Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the epic battle between man and the sea and, in this case, between man and beast an often-violent struggle that animates the imagination and stirs our emotions. Beginning his engrossing narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614, Dolin traces the rise of this burgeoning industry-from its rapid expansion in the colonial era and its brutal struggles during and after the Revolutionary War, to its Golden Age in the mid-1800s, when more than 60 ports got into the whaling business and the sails of America
Who reads Leviathan : the history of whaling in America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dolin, Eric Jay
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393331578
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14