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"An end to Japanese aloofness came not from Europeans, now involved in trades of all sorts in the Orient; but from the American North Pacific whaling deet. In 1823—24, eighty-six American whaling ships had passed within sight of Japan's most northerly island, Yezo. American whaling schooners were shipwrecked from time to time and the survivors sent to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies by the single Dutch ship allowed to trade with Japan. Japanese fishermen and sailors turned up in California or Oregon in the 1840s, driven 6000 miles across the Pacific by bad weather." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"In the 1920s they made the voluntary decision to stop whaling altogether, fifty years before the gray whale became legally protected as an endangered species. An international moratorium on commercial whaling, in place since 1986, has been effective enough that gray whale populations have rebounded, and in 1994 it was removed from the endangered species list. Because of that 1855 treaty, and the fact that they do not hunt for commercial purposes, the Makah are at least theoretically exempt from the commercial whaling ban." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.) "As the commercial whaling industry grew, the Makah watched whale populations dwindle. In the 1920s they made the voluntary decision to stop whaling altogether, fifty years before the gray whale became legally protected as an endangered species. An international moratorium on commercial whaling, in place since 1986, has been effective enough that gray whale populations have rebounded, and in 1994 it was removed from the endangered species list." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.) "The gray whale is so central to their culture that in an 1855 treaty with the United States, the Makah traded 90 percent of their land for the right to continue whaling. As the commercial whaling industry grew, the Makah watched whale populations dwindle. In the 1920s they made the voluntary decision to stop whaling altogether, fifty years before the gray whale became legally protected as an endangered species." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"At that time, the only Starbucks was a prominent whaling family on nearby Nantucket (and they probably drank tea). The Margaret had fared better than many ships from Salem that plied the spice trade to the East Indies. During those early years of the trade, several ships (most notably the Putnam and the sadly named Friendship) lost crew and cargo to the jagged-bladed kris knives of Malay pirates off the Sumatran coast." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"In 1823—24, eighty-six American whaling ships had passed within sight of Japan's most northerly island, Yezo. American whaling schooners were shipwrecked from time to time and the survivors sent to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies by the single Dutch ship allowed to trade with Japan. Japanese fishermen and sailors turned up in California or Oregon in the 1840s, driven 6000 miles across the Pacific by bad weather. Commodore Biddle was sent to begin trade and consular relationships in 1846, but was politely and positively told to leave, which he did, without setting foot ashore." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"Opposite, right: An Eskimo whaling crew paddles through unfrozen waters, a reflection of the shifting infrastructure of circumpolar communities. I'm not an explorer, at least not in the old-fashioned, Edwardian sense of the word. In an age of satellite, sonar, and laser, I don't exactly ski along drawing maps. For me, expeditions are a chance to explore my potential as an athlete, but I hope they're also about something bigger." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Entrepreneurs scoured whaling records to rediscover unclaimed guano islands where the stuff could be mined freely. After President Franklin Pierce signed rhe 1856 Guano Island Act, making it legal for any U.S. citizens to claim any unoccupied guano island as their personal property, several dozen small tropical islands became the United States' first overseas possessions. Paving the way for later global engagements, these diminutive territories helped lead to the development of the modern chemical fertilizer industry." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Major 19th-century whaling port. Nauru i°S, i67°E. Island nation 2,300 km northeast of Sydney, Australia. New Caledonia i8?22°S, i63-i68°E. Pacific island that forms, with Loyalty Is., French overseas territory. Newfoundland 48°N, 56°W. Large Canadian Atlantic island south of Labrador. Novaya Zemlya 74°N, 57°E. New Land; Russian archipelago comprising two main islands, 960 km long, between Barents and Kara Seas. Novosibirskiye Ostrova 75°N, 142°E. New Siberian Is.; Russian group between Laptev and East Siberian Seas. Orkney Is. 59°N, 3°W." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"For example, in the winter of 1902 a dysentery epidemic brought by a sailor on the whaling ship Active killed 51 out of the 56 Sadlermiut Eskimos, a very isolated band of people living on Southampton Island in the Canadian Arctic. In addition, measles and some of our other "childhood" diseases are more likely to kill infected adults than children, and all adults in the tribelet are susceptible. (In contrast, modern Americans rarely contract measles as adults, because most of them get either measles or the vaccine against it as children." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"An international moratorium on commercial whaling, in place since 1986, has been effective enough that gray whale populations have rebounded, and in 1994 it was removed from the endangered species list. Because of that 1855 treaty, and the fact that they do not hunt for commercial purposes, the Makah are at least theoretically exempt from the commercial whaling ban. They decided to resume tradition, and after a rigorous training program, in 1999 a group of Makah went out hunting into the sea and brought home the first whale in nearly eighty years. " - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"American whaling schooners were shipwrecked from time to time and the survivors sent to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies by the single Dutch ship allowed to trade with Japan. Japanese fishermen and sailors turned up in California or Oregon in the 1840s, driven 6000 miles across the Pacific by bad weather. Commodore Biddle was sent to begin trade and consular relationships in 1846, but was politely and positively told to leave, which he did, without setting foot ashore." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

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