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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
2) Moby-Dick
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Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
6) Whalesong
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
7) Sound tracks
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 244 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pirates (Gideon Defoe) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 152 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Glashka's dream of the singing of whales, accompanied by a special kind of music, leads to the rescue of thousands of whales stranded in a freezing Siberian bay.
Author
Series
Max L. Biederman Zoo book volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 325, 12 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to Hannah's Dream is the story of a dying orca, the caring zoo that saves him, and the controversy that threatens his captivity.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 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,...
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