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Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (77 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Offers an adaptation of Melville's "Moby Dick," starring Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. When Moby the white whale steals Captain Quackhab's lucky dime, the captain chases Moby across the seas to get it back.
22) Mighty Moby
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bedtime story of a whale hunt inspired by the classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, here with a new twist. Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
23) Moby Dick
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
27) Loud Emily
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.
28) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine
Publication Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
x, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult book "In the Heart of the Sea."
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to her cousin Abigail.
32) Whale snow
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Publication Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about Inupiats and the bowhead whale.
36) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.
37) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Campfire
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
84 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Melville's story about Captain Ahab's search for Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.
Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
40) The Rathbones
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (854 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member.

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