Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 3 | Eight Centuries of the Sea in Recent Volume

I 4 I fr frEight Eight Centuries of of the Sea in Recent V Volume ol v r bi Charles Boardman Board Board- man H Hawes Hes wes es Is Absorbing an Thrilling Record By JAMES iJAMES G. G WOOLLEY Prom Biscay Elay to New Bedford Eight centuries of the sea Replete with the thrills of ot true adventure full chock-full of ot humorous anecdote br breathing life into the v I dr dry terse must musty logs and records fro b by what untold tedium I these high lights of a once great In Industry industry in- in were culled Whaling by Charles Boardman Hawes is a a. book bool for all who are Interested In Inthe Inthe Inthe the sea ot of in the emotions of or hum human n beings Mr oIl Hawes brings bring's the art artof of r the born teller story-teller to enliven this history Ills his tory of at whaling from its beginnings during the twelfth century in the coastal waters off oft the Bay Ba of BisI Biscay Bis Bis- I ay cay a through its recurrent booms I ann and slumps to its eighty eight years ears ago when American whaling brought the industry to its highest development and then through the tile process of decline and almost total disappearance following the discovery discovery discovery dis dis- dis- dis covery of petroleum in 1853 1859 In all allU U ij various phases whaling held a a. position unique in the affairs of ef men en A A ABiG BIG INDUSTRY For Tor centuries manufacturing ar- ar illumination i fashion were re dependent upon the bone and oil J I that the whalers brought back from far Car seas after years of cruising in half frozen Arctic waters and under under un- un I der del the blazing furnace of an equatorial equa equa- I tonal sun The Tile value of or these cargoes cargoes car car- goes too pla played ed an Important part partIn partin in iii financing of r new industries on onland onland onland land millions of or dollars annually pouring into the coffers of canny New Englanders Engenders who went ent a wha Ing log or sent out ut they the had I fitted I There Therl is a strange similarity be between between be be- tween this ancient sea search for fori i lle tle and saleen saloon and that that I of ot the modern oil well It runs an u undercurrent throughout Mr oIl i Hawes' Hawes book the enterprise I fraught with hazard bazard frequently disastrous disastrous dis dis- but when successful bringing untold wealth to the fortunate fortunate for for- tun ate investor But in the hunt for whales there thera were factors not encountered in the land search for crude oil Each I spout was promise of a gusher rich f prize to be taken only after atter a desperate desperate desperate des- des fight in open boats between armed men with harpoons anti and j 1 lances pitted against a monster monster mightier In size and speed and strength than the prehistoric dinosaur dino saul and who on occasion proved able to sink not Just the whalers whalers' boat but even the great ship laden perhaps with rich cargo THRILLING SPORT Each whale capture was as a a. hunt huit unequaled by any land sport The master strikes home his harpoon as the little boat bobs alongside the monster Leviathan is off tearing through the water at twenty miles an hour The row rowboat boat which boat which had been resting on its oars is fast to Its victim A moment moment mo nie- ment meat of or suspense a a. jerk which A. A I. I nearly nearh capsizes the the- slight sll craft arid and 1 it trails b behind at express express tr aln in r J. J rate in the wake of or the great beasts beast's death race But just catching whales was wal not all the excitement of a whaler haer Men wen went venC mad from these long years at sea There were mutinies murders piracies sufferings Today a whaler whal whal- er might romance with a a. maiden on a south sea atoll and ancl next month fa face co death alone on the Ice fields of the Arctic The history of or whaling is abundant with heroisms and coward Ices earnings and anc losses losse loves loes and hates adventures arid t t commonplaces the hoarding of meager wages wage and the abandon abandon- fent lent of or security to search for hidden hidden hid hid- den pirate ate treasure on some c canni cannibal bal Isle Ise All this is Is emphasized i in iii M 11 Hawes' Hawes volume which i is' is history histo but more than that Is vital a-vital stor story perpetuating for all t o r glamour and romance VV j ity that attended going down don to to 2 the sea In ships for whales Dou- Dou Doubleday Doubleday bleday bleda Page Co Garden Cit City