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Trying-out / an anatomy of Dutch whaling and sealing in the nineteenth century, 1815-1885 Gerd Hagedorn In doing soThis study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815 1885) an era neglected so far. In his pioneering book the author, Curator at the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam, focuses on the men involved in the two maritime industries be