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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination…

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly…
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers…
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers…

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The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life,… — Laurie Anderson
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely… — Bobby Jones
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week? — Terry Pratchett
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever… — Herman Melville
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far,… — Paul Watson
Whaling was the oil business of its day. — Nathaniel Philbrick
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath… — Lewis Gordon Pugh
Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our… — Paul Watson
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. — Paul Watson
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation… — Paul Watson
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people… — Paul Watson

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