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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
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. The plan is to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
479 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A social and economic history of whaling in America traces Captain John Smith's ill-fated expedition to the New World in 1614, through the industry's rise to its nineteenth-century golden years, to its decline in the twentieth century.
3) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34]p.: col. ill.; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peg, a big strapping seven-year-old lass who has caught everything else in the sea, joins the crew of the whaling ship Viper and sets out to catch herself a whale.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion where she studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 2 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Series
Satucket volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47, [1] p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Inupiat people of Alaska's North Slope must learn to adjust to a changing climate that threatens to disrupt their ancient culture.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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...