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Under Sail to the Greenland Whale Fishery. August 7, 2011. Pilot on Board: August 7th, 1811. Was near to Whitby and riding on the flood tide. Scoresby brought the pilot on board to see them through the Sandsend roads. The ship was prepared for entering the harbour, taking down the boats and their davits, so that by 4AM, they were ready:. When all Ships had got within the Piers made sail for the Harbour. We were somewhat too late for the tide and soon aground near the scotch head on the SE side. Yet, as t...
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Overruled: August 8th, 1811 | Letters to Elizabeth
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Under Sail to the Greenland Whale Fishery. Overruled: August 8th, 1811. August 8, 2011. The following day, the. Entered the harbour, but was prevented from going beyond the bridge that divides the main harbour basin from the better protected upper harbour:. In the afternoon tide got the Ship opposite Mr Martines where we moored. I wished to proceed through the Bridge [in the entrance to Whitby harbour] but was overruled by the managing owners. From → Letters to Elizabeth. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Oil Lamps in Liverpool, 1817 | Letters to Elizabeth
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Under Sail to the Greenland Whale Fishery. Oil Lamps in Liverpool, 1817. August 17, 2011. In 1817, when Scoresby and his father moved temporarily to Liverpool to refit the. And convert it into a whaler, Liverpool was converting its street lighting on the main throroughfares from oil lamps to gas. In this account, taken from. Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian. The image above is taken from. Recollections of Old Liverpool. And shows the city as it was in 1813. From → Letters to Elizabeth.
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Ahab Beckons: November 2014
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Sunday, November 30, 2014. New York Times editorial critical of Japan's Whaling. From NYT editorial, Japan is Back in the Hunt for Whales. Read the entire article. If the we...
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Ahab Beckons: Marathoner's Checklist
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. For your consideration, the fruit of a collective fourteen Moby-Dick Marathons. A copy of Moby-Dick. 8212; the overhead lights stay on. Snacks, preferably unspillable, in qu...
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Ahab Beckons: Maurice Sendak on Melville
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Maurice Sendak on Melville. As a tribute to Maurice Sendak, Fresh Air. For Melville-centric us, there is a nugget at 26:25. May 18, 2012 at 11:13 AM.
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Ahab Beckons: Victory!
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Saturday, January 4, 2014. A day to mark with a white stone. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Parking, Sleeping, Eating. New Bedford Whaling Museum website. My first Moby...
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Ahab Beckons: So that's where it went!
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Tuesday, December 2, 2014. So that's where it went! Back in 2011, Melville's "travel desk" was auctioned. For $34,160 to an unnamed buyer. Now we know where it went. In cont...
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Ahab Beckons: Parking, Accommodations, Restaurants
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Parking, Accommodations, Restaurants. There is a municipal lot holding 70 vehicles, about a block west of the Whaling Museum. The entrance is on Barker Lane. From our experi...
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Ahab Beckons: MDM19 "post-mortemising"
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In Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The New Bedford Whaling Museum. S Moby-Dick Marathon is an annual non-stop reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece. The multi-day program of entertaining activities and events is presented every January. Admission to the Marathon is free. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. First, mark your calendar: The 20th. New Bedford Moby-Dick Marathon. MDM20) will be January 8-10, 2016. No surprise, MDM19 was much like MDM18.
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