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The whale hunters, Sebastian Junger

Label
The whale hunters, Sebastian Junger
Language
eng
resource.accompanyingMatter
technical information on music
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
other
Main title
The whale hunters
Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Sebastian Junger
Summary
This piece, which appeared in Outside magazine in 1995 and was originally recorded for "Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea," is about an old man, a Bequian harpooner, who uses a wooden sailboat to hunt humpback whales. The piece is an elegy of sorts--an unsentimental lament for something lost
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
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