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The North water : a novel
The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
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Moby Dick
Ishmael joined the crew of the whaling ship Pequod expecting a simple whaling voyage.Little did he know that the captain of the ship is thirsty for revenge against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for his missing leg.As the crew sails the ocean, Captain Ahab searches unceasingly for Moby Dick, ignoring warnings and prophecies of doom.
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The Convincing Ground Aboriginal massacre at Portland Bay, Victoria: fact or fiction?
In 2005 the so-called 'Aboriginal History wars' moved from Tasmania to a new convincing ground in Victoria. Michael Connor contested the historiography behind an alleged Aboriginal massacre at a site known as the 'Convincing Ground', at Allestree, on the coast some ten kilometres north of Portland. The site came to public attention in January 2005 when Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officers halted bulldozing and development work that had begun as part of a proposed coastal residential development. It subsequently became the subject of a Federal Court Native Title case and a Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal hearing. The dispute with the residential developer was settled in February 2007 when it was agreed that an area of land that encompasses the Convincing Ground would be set aside as a reservation.
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Interview with Ralph Fletcher
Dan is an interesting character, a sort of clam digging Zen master/Vietnam vet/spiritual guide in Matt's intro to the Universe.
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Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
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Killing Tom Coffin: Rethinking the Nationalist Narrative in James Fenimore Cooper's \The Pilot\
Opening the book with peasants' vivid fear of impressment, which entails the forceful transference from private activity to military service often irrespective of national identity, is an apt exergue, in a sense, for themes that permeate the rest of the novel.1 Considering the broad implications of these themes, especially in light of contemporary Americanist scholarship's interest in borders and national crossings,2 it is surprising that besides Thomas Philbrick's seminal 1961 James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction, few scholars have taken Cooper's early maritime romances-or any of his nautical fiction, for that matter- seriously enough to deem them worthy of sustained analysis.3 Despite this dearth of critical attention, both traditional and recent scholarship on The Pilot has addressed some of these topics. While Susan Fenimore Cooper explains that toward the end of his life her father regretted precipitously killing off Coffin and reducing him to a \"sketch,\" I argue that in the context of Cooper's other maritime fiction and his political and historical writings, this sailor's death may be more of a prerequisite for the national narrative Cooper envisions than an unfortunate oversight of character development.5 The complex and competing social elements in The Pilot, one of Cooper's earliest novels, are a direct result of both Cooper's complicated political identity in the 1820s and the constant din of magazines such as the PortFolio calling for materials that promoted maritime nationalism.6 As Peck makes clear, Cooper was uneasy about the American Revolution, viewing it as an example of \"the way in which noble motive and high purpose can be distorted by the violence and chaos that inevitably accompany social rebellion\" (589).
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