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Lydia Pyne

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

December 1, 2019

By Lydia Pyne In 1873, there weren’t very many options for the public in the United States to see what a real whale looked like. The occasional whale could wash up on a beach somewhere, of course, but it would rapidly begin to shuffle off its mortal coil, leaving beachgoers with the decidedly unpleasant process […]

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