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Allen, Robert, C. and Keay, Ian. (2001) The first great whale extinction: the end of the bowhead whale in the eastern Arctic. Explorations in Economic History. volume 38. p. 448.

Buchan, Alex. (1980) The Port of Peterhead from its establishment to the beginning of the twentieth century. Scrogie. Peterhead.

Buchan, Alex. R. (1993) The Peterhead Whaling Trade. The Buchan Field Club. Peterhead.

Credland, Arthur G. (1995) The Hull Whaling Trade. An Arctic Enterprise. Hutton Press Ltd. Beverley.

Findlay, James, T. (1933) A History of Peterhead. Scrogie. Peterhead.

Henderson, David S. (1977) Fishing for the Whale. Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication no. 2. Dundee.

Jackson, Gordon. (1978) The British Whaling Trade. Adam and Charles Black. London.

Lubbock, Basil. (1937) The Arctic Whalers. Brown, Son and Ferguson. Glasgow.

Ommanney, F.D. (1971) Lost Leviathan. Hutchison. London.

Scoresby, William. Jun. (1820) An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description of the Northern whale-fishery. 2 volumes. Archibald Constable. Edinburgh.

Scoresby, William. Jun. (1851) My Father. London.

Sutherland, Gavin. (1993) The Whaling Years. Peterhead. (1788-1893). The Centre for Scottish studies, University of Aberdeen.

 

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