Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans and Pacific Worlds Edited by Ryan Tucker Jones and Angela Wanhalla (Hardback) Missionary History industrial slaughter in the twentieth

industrial slaughter in the twentieth century

In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling

between ideas and realities

1861–1866 and News from Molokai: Letters between Peter Kaeo and Queen Emma

In most cases

Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans and Pacific Worlds Edited by Ryan Tucker Jones and Angela Wanhalla (Hardback) Missionary History industrial slaughter in the twentiethMore than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the oceans history.