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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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