The Glamour of the Arctic
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Most Peterhead whale-fishers, Conan Doyle notes, have not seen corn ripen since boyhood, because they sail in late February and return in September. He sketches the old Greenland trade, once shared by Basque, Dutch and Spanish ships and later centred on Hull, Poole and Liverpool before settling at Peterhead, and says it is fading as ships look to the Antarctic. He also describes the hunt from his own time in the harpooning and lancing boats.
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- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Reading time
- About 20 minutes
- Pages
- 14
- Language
- English
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