The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first
whaleman; and to the eternal honor of our calling be it said, that the first whale attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent.
'I shall ere long,' Ishmael promises midway through the novel, 'paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the
whaleman.' But declaring this objective also allows Ishmael (and Melville) to dwell on the rarity of accurate depictions of whales.
Nantucket
whaleman Owen Chase is not at home for the birth of most of his children, including his firstborn, Phebe Ann.
(158.) Clifford Ashley, THE YANKEE WHALER 2329 (1938); Elmo Paul Hohman, THE AMERICAN
WHALEMAN: A STUDY OF LIFE AND LABOR IN THE WHALING INDUSTRY 5-22 (1928).
"Why not?" said I; "every true
whaleman sleeps with his harpoon--but why not!" "Because it's dangerous," says she.
The ''Nashville'' star is active with the
Whaleman Foundation, an oceanic research and conservation group.
The
Whaleman Foundation spokeswoman reportedly uses the stairs and attends Bikram yoga classes in order to stay in shape.
Jude's Children's Hospital), Bailee Madison (Alex's Lemonade Stand), Hayden Panettiere (
Whaleman Foundation), Chloe Moretz (Film Foundation) and Rico Rodriguez (Camp Ronald McDonald).
The details of the study of the anatomy and physiology of breathing are a central part of the studies of the
whaleman turned biologist.
According to Neutrogena, 68% of the funds will go to the Women's Global Education Project, a charity that supports education; 23% to the Lambi Fund of Haiti, a charity that provides disaster relief; and 9% to the
Whaleman Foundation, a charity that works to protect the environment.
Known as the "
Whaleman", he captures these giants of the deep on camera from a tiny kayak he paddles off Alaska.
The author of a book on place names of San Mateo county placed the site of the shore station at
Whaleman's Harbor just outside the northern end of Half Moon Bay and quoted the 1862 Coast Pilot as indicating that about 1,000 bbl of "humpback oil" had been secured at this station in autumn 1861 (Brown, 1975; cited in Bertao, 2006:138).