Books:Dingwall, P.R. et al (eds) -
Enderby Settlement Diaries: Records of a British Colony at the Auckland Islands, 1849-1852. Akld: Wild Press & Wordsell Press, 1999. [18]267 pages. 23.5 cm. Illus (some col), maps.
The ill-fated, soap opera colony of the Southern Whale Fishery Company, as documented in the diaries of William A. Mackworth and William J. Munce. Commentaries include chapter on "The Maori-Moriori community".
McIntosh, R. (1938).
Whaling in New Zealand Waters — “There She Blows.” Published in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 12 (March 1, 1938.)
McKillop, Captain Bill. (2019).
The last of the sail whalers: whaling off southern New Zealand and Tasmania.
McKillop was born on Stewart Island in 1865, grew up in Riverton and was the last of the sail whalers in Foveaux Strait, Fiordland and the southern islands: Chathams, Solander, the Snares, Auckland ("the most inhospitable coast I ever saw") and Campbell. He died in Hobart in 1938. As well as the many NZ references there is considerable detail on sealing, on whale capture and processing, and the life of whalemen ashore and at sea. Chapter headings: Early life and sealing in New Zealand; The whale chase; Whaling out of New Zealand and Tasmania; Incidents on our voyages; Some famous Hobart whalemen; Whales; The merchant mariner; Valedictory (by Will Lawson); William McKillop, a brief biography.
Philbrick, N. (2000).
In the heart of the sea. Explains the working life and crew culture of whalers from the American perspective, how they were hired and the process of hunting and then processing a whale.
Richards, R. (1995).
The Foveaux whaling yarns of Yankee Jack. Rickard L.S. (1965).
The whaling trade in old New Zealand. Straubel (ed.) (1954).
The whaling journal of W.B. Rhodes: Barque Australian of Sydney 1836-1838 Tod F. (1982).
Whaling in southern waters.Whitecar, W.B. (1860).
Four years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic oceans in the years 1855, ‘6,’7,’8,’9.https://whalesite.org/anthology/1860_Whiitecar_Four%20Years.htmSpades
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