Trying-out [electronic resource] : an anatomy of Dutch whaling and sealing in the nineteenth century, 1815-1885 / Justus Carolus Antonius Schokkenbroek
Dutch whaling and sealing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- King Willem I and the premium system (1815-1855) -- Nineteenth-century Dutch whaling in the South Seas (1827-1849) -- Nineteenth-century Dutch whaling and sealing in the Arctic (1815-1885) -- Ships and men : driving and floating forces -- Clients, commodities, and distribution -- Profitability of Dutch involvement in the whaling and sealing industries.