Whale Hunting With Gun And Camera. A Naturalist's Account of the Modern Shore-Whaling Industry, of Whales and Their Habits, and of Hunting Experiences in Various Parts of the World.

by Roy Chapman Andrews

Pp. xxii, (3), 332, (1); 150 text-photos. Publisher's original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, and with gilt decoration of harpoon on the cover, 8vo. Presents shore hunting in the US, Japan, Korea, Canada, etc. while Andrews was collecting cetaceans for the American Museum of Natural History. Thanks to Andrew's camera, many aspects of modern whaling operations are pictorially represented. From the library of Ensign K.A. Rice with his bookplate and printed name on the front endpaper.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions in China in the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. His popular writings about his adventures made him famous.