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62) Water sky
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
64) Whaling days
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Surveys the whaling industry, ranging from hunting in colonial America to modern whaling regulations and conservation efforts.
71) Moby Dick
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format.
72) Children of the light: the rise and fall of New Bedford whaling and the death of the arctic fleet
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
77) The North water
Pub. Date
[2022]
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.
78) Loud Emily
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica.For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey-a Japanese whaling fleet-through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The ship is black, flies under a jolly...
Author
Series
Survival! volume 9
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
During almost four years at sea with her whaling captain father, thirteen-year-old Rebecca finds life both boring and difficult--especially when the ship is nearly sunk by a hurricane.
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