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2) Moby-Dick
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Language
English
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Description
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many months later. Here is the incredible...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
9) Moby-Dick
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Mocha Dick, the real-life whale who was the inspiration behind the classic novel "Moby Dick." Mocha Dick wreaked havoc on the whaling ships that attacked him, until the day he was finally killed, fifty-nine years after he was first spotted.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Publication Date
2015
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information on the history of whaling, whale-watching, and the conservation movement to ensure the safety of whales.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
429 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York. Nearly twenty years later, as the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (78 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Ishmael and Queequeg set out on the Pequod with their hearts set on adventure. But the ship's captain is bent on revenge against a white whale that caused him to lose his leg. And the ship's quest becomes an epic adventure that leaves only one man standing.
17) The North water
Publisher
BBC
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the treacherous waters surrounding Kirkrell, sailors hunting magic whales live in fear of the finfolk--bloodthirsty sea fae who sink ships and curse bloodlines. Nineteen-year-old Annie, as heir to the city's preeminent whaling company, is determined to carry on her parents' life's work. But she keeps a secret from everyone: she's cursed to transform into a monster, with scales spreading up her arms and claws growing from her fingertips. Her fiancé,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : black and white map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves...