The dramatic history of the world whaling industry, which lasted about a century, is shown in the book from a Norwegian perspective. As a result of human predation, the largest animals on the planet almost disappeared completely, and several species of whales were lost forever. The Norwegian A. Tjernshaugen, using a large amount of factual material, vividly narrates the origin, development and cessation of industrial whaling. At the same time, he focuses on how this fishery developed in Norway, the country that is the leader in the world whaling industry, although the book also describes the actions of British, American, Argentine, German, Japanese and Soviet whalers. This trade had its own heroes, its own stages, many of them are described in the book, equipped with rare photographs. The relationship between people and whales is one of the most revealing pages in the history of the development of human civilization.