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In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whaling--in fact, their entire livelihood--would be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, ...

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Alaska's Whaling Coast 2014, Arcadia Publishing (SC)

ISBN-13: 9781467130240

Trade paperback

Alaska's Whaling Coast 2014, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531675035

Hardcover