Nineteenth-Century Whaling and the Environment: An Exploration of the Cultural Influences on Whaler's interactions with nature

Nineteenth-Century Whaling and the Environment: An Exploration of the Cultural Influences on Whaler's interactions with nature" explores a number of logs and journals, as well as fictional and non-fiction accounts of whaling voyages, in examination of the unique relationship whaler's had with the natural world. In examination, this essay explores a peculiar complexity in the relationship between whalers and whales, that resulted in a disconnect between whalers and the larger natural environment. As well as, explore the cultural influences that perpetuated this complexity such as the rise of domestication, Christianity, and the familial aspects of the American whaling industry