Download or read book The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by David Starr Jordan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Vol. 4 I undertook the trip with a full understanding of the difficulties awaiting me, both in the studies in the field and in the working up of the report. I was fully aware that, alone in an almost untrodden field, my work would of necessity be fragmentary, and for that reason unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, I felt that I ought to do it for several reasons. In the first place, I was in possession of a great amount of interesting information about the Russian seal islands never published, or else very inaccessible to those concerned in the fate of the fur-seal, which it might be useful to bring together. In the second place, I felt convinced that but few men were in the same fortunate position as myself of having had the opportunity to study the Russian fur-seal industry at close quarters while it was still flourishing, and that consequently I was in an exceptionally good position for instituting the desired comparison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.