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The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales.
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades. 32 pages of illustrations.
【作者简介】
埃里克•杰•多林,毕业于布朗大学,曾任美国环保署项目经理,在美国和伦敦从事环境顾问工作,他的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣,如《美国和中国最初的相遇》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《政治的浑水》《蛇头》等。个人网站:www.ericjaydolin.com
【译者简介】
冯璇,北京外国语大学英语学院毕业,曾在出版社从事版权工作,现在专门从事翻译工作,已经翻译出版了《郁金香热》《美第奇家族的兴衰》《安第斯山脉的生与死》《印加帝国的末日》《皮毛、财富和帝国》等作品。荣获2018年度中国书业评选•翻译奖。
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