TY - BOOK AU - Newton,John TI - A savage history: the story of whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans SN - 1742233740 U1 - 639.2809164 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Sydney PB - NewSouth Publishing KW - Whaling KW - Pacific Ocean KW - History KW - South Pacific Ocean N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.5050 The slaughter of the leviathan -- Whaling in ancient times -- New South whales -- Whaling among the Maori and missionaries -- The business of whaling -- The Pacific capital of whaling -- The floating abattoir -- Exploration and the whaling boom -- The stockbroker and the artist -- Whaling craft -- Life, food, booze and sex -- Women go whaling -- Mechanised slaughter -- The Norwegians in Western Australia -- Ten thousand years of eating whale -- Japan against the world -- End game -- What now for whales? -- Whaleography ER -