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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Henry Hobhouse See book keywords and concepts

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.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

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.

Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Henry Hobhouse See book keywords and concepts

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.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

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.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

Our images of Greenpeace are of tiny boats in rough seas trying to block mammoth whaling ships, and of one called Rainbow Warrior sunk by the French secret police in 1985 for its protests against nuclear testing. But when we're ushered into a conference room, the Greenpeace literature makes it clear just how behind the times we are. The group's GMO campaign now uses a quarter of the group's budget, second only to its antinuclear efforts.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations Donald Ryan See book keywords and concepts

Artifacts of wood and fiber products from this important whaling village, such as baskets and ropes, were well preserved. Ozette is situated on the Makah Indian Reservation, and the Makah people today try to maintain their traditional culture, including the hunting of whales in the ocean in open canoes. The site itself can be reached today by a beautiful hike through forests and marshes and then along the beach. The Makah Cultural and Research Center, located at Neah Bay, houses the artifacts excavated from Ozette.

Life Without Bread Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz See book keywords and concepts

At the missions erected near the native whaling stations, the missionaries kept exact records of the causes of death among the Eskimos. Stefansson was able to contact many of these ministers, or their widows, and from the material he collected it did indeed appear that the traditional meat-eating Eskimo did not suffer from cancer. As civilization reached the natives of Canada at the turn of the century, they, too, began to consume carbohydrates, and it was then that the diseases connected with our civilization also began to appear.

Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? Francisco, M.D. Contreras See book keywords and concepts

Convention on International trade In endangered species Montreal Protocol London Dumping convention International Convention (or the prevention of pollution from ships International tropical timber agreement Q-nlrks rctf wwJ In repmt Nitrous Oxide Protocol þ 1 Qntrits that did repul International whaling Convention Number nfCtiotiries 0 20 40 60 80 100 no These principles seem to mark the beginning of a process that could solve the ecological problem. Or do they? The intended world solidarity stated in Principle 7 was violated in the same conference.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Center of whaling industry during the nineteenth century. Nashville City in central Tennessee. fa Center of country music. Nebraska State in the midwestern United States bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa and Missouri to the east, Kansas to the south, and Colorado and Wyoming to the west. Its capital is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha. Nevada State in the western United States bordered by Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah and Arizona to the east, and California to the south and west. Its capital is Carson City, and its largest city is Las Vegas.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Center of whaling industry during the nineteenth century. Nashville City in central Tennessee. fa Center of country music. Nebraska State in the midwestern United States bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa and Missouri to the east, Kansas to the south, and Colorado and Wyoming to the west. Its capital is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha. Nevada State in the western United States bordered by Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah and Arizona to the east, and California to the south and west. Its capital is Carson City, and its largest city is Las Vegas.

Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Gina Kolata See book keywords and concepts

She found just two books written in English, and learned that Spitsbergen had been a center for the whaling trade, with 200 to 300 ships and 10,000 to 20,000 men in the area in the late seventeenth century. Coal mining began in 1906 when John Monroe Longyear, an American, formed the Arctic Coal Company on the island, and within a decade there were six coal mines in the area. The miners and their families lived in the newly built town of Longyearbyen. The town also drew seasonal workers, men who were farmers or fishermen in Norway, who spent the cold winter months in Longyearbyen mining coal.

Then the villagers were self-sufficient; many still practiced the ancient skills for whaling and hunting that had been handed down from father to son for generations. By 1997, he said, all that was gone, replaced by a dependence on welfare. Now the village, still isolated beside the chilly gray sea, was desolate, a place of hopelessness rather than pride. "It is very tragic," Hultin noted. "They exist, they have many children, and the government pays.

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