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10 de jun. de 2014 · Before the Vikings came to Britain there was no whaling, though coastal-dwellers would avail themselves of any beached strays by chopping them up for their meat and oil. It was the bellicose Norsemen who imported the notion of actively pursuing the creatures, which is how the pilot whale hunt became a tradition in Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. A line of boats would drive the whales into the ...
Britains Whale Hunters: The Untold Story Writer Adam Nicolson is granted rare access to the ruins of the whaling stations on the remote British island of South Georgia. Amazing rarely-seen archive footage and first-hand testimony from the last of Britain's whale hunters reveals what it was really like to have been a whale hunter in Antarctica, providing Europe with essential oils for soap and ...
Adam Nicolson looks at the history of British Whale Hunting and the lost whaling communities.
9 de jun. de 2014 · June 09, 2014 in Britain's Whale Hunters, Work. ‘ Britain’s Whale Hunters: The Untold Story ’ reveals Britain’s deep involvement in the whaling industry right up until the mid 1960s. Antarctica became the focus of whaling companies in the early 20th century, and the epicentre of operations was the British island of South Georgia.
Há 3 dias · Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story Episodes Episode guide. All; Available now (0) Next on (0) The Fall. 2 / 2 Adam Nicolson explores the role British whalers played in Antarctic ...
9 de jun. de 2014 · Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story. Adam Nicolson focuses on the controversial work of whale hunters as he tries to understand why the population of the water-dwelling mammals was so drastically reduced in the 20th century. In the first of two programmes, the writer discovers how whaling was commercialised to supply a growing demand for ...
