About whales and whales. How we almost exterminated the largest animal on earth

The dramatic story of the world whaling fishing, which lasted around the century, is shown in the book from the Norwegian angle of view. As a result of human predatory actions, the largest animals of the planets almost disappeared at all, and several types of whales were lost forever. Norwegian A. Thiernshaugen on a large actual material clearly tells about the origin, development and termination of industrial fishing of whales. At the same time, he pays his main attention to how this craft developed in Norway, the country - the leader of the world whaling, although the book also describes the actions of British, American, Argentinean, German, Japanese and Soviet whales. This craft had their own heroes, their stages, many of them are described in a book, equipped with rare photographs. The relationship of people and whales is one of the most indicative pages of the history of the development of human civilization