Ebook: Trying Out: An Anatomy of Dutch Whaling and Sealing in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1885

This study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815-1885) an era neglected so far.