On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
- ISBN10 0774802928
- ISBN13 9780774802925
- Publish Date 1 January 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 March 2022
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 441
- Language English