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Record #181467:
Phoquiers de la Désolation: la chasse aux éléphants de mer aux îles Kerguelen par les navires-usines français (1925-1931) / Patrick Arnaud, Jean Beurois, Pierre Couesnon, Jean-François le Mouël.
Title: | Phoquiers de la Désolation: la chasse aux éléphants de mer aux îles Kerguelen par les navires-usines français (1925-1931) / Patrick Arnaud, Jean Beurois, Pierre Couesnon, Jean-François le Mouël. |
Translated title: | Sealers of desolation: the hunt for elephant seals at Îles Kerguelen by French factory ships (1925-1931). |
Author(s): | Arnaud, Patrick. Beurois, Jean. Couesnon, Pierre. Mouël, Jean-François le. |
Date: | 2007. |
Publisher: | Vachères: Editions Françoise Jambois |
Language: | French. |
Abstract: | Account of six seasons of sealing at sub-Antarctic Îles Kerguelen by French company Pêches Australes, subsidiary of Bossière brother's Compagnie Générale des îles Kerguelen, Saint-Paul et Amsterdam, aboard factory ships Lozère and Austral. Includes extensive extracts from private correspondence of officers and crew; provisioning of vessels, accidents at sea and shipwrecks; detailed account of seal hunting, products of sealing, and description of shore station at Port-Couvreux; various legal and commercial arrangements involving Bossière brothers and Norwegian companies Storm, Bull and Company, and Aktieselskab Kerguelen; and numbers of seals killed each season, by day and location. |
Keywords: | 639.24 -- Marine mammals, hunting. 639.247.4 -- Sealing industry: French. 061.5 -- Business enterprises: Pêches Australes. 639.38 -- Fish and marine mammal products. 629.12 -- Vessels: Lozère. 629.12 -- Vessels: Austral. 93"192" -- 1920-1929. 93"193" -- 1930-1939. 711.424 -- Historic sites: Port-Couvreux. 82-94 -- Diaries and expedition journals. 92 -- Biographies: Bossière, René. 92 -- Biographies: Bossière, Henry. 92 -- Biographies: Berland, André. 92 -- Biographies: Guyader, René le. 330.34 -- Economic development. V -- History. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*78) -- Sub-Antarctic islands. (*784.2) -- Kerguelen, Iles. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*784.2) : 639.247.4 |
ISBN: | 9782953023305 |
SPRI record no.: | 181467 |
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