Download or read book Antarctic Whaling written by John Sheail and published by CABI. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctic Whaling explores how British whalers came to claim so large a share of the whales taken from the Southern Ocean in the first half of the twentieth century, and, more particularly, where, when, how and why the British Government came to play so large a part in whaling history through its endeavour to regulate the whaling grounds.