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1) Moby-Dick
Author
Language
English
Description
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power....
First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power....
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
4) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 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.
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,...
12) The whalers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1979]
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
13) Men and whales
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. Few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Environmental writer Dolin chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry, from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American...
19) The hunted whale
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
20) Whaling days
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Surveys the whaling industry, ranging from hunting in colonial America to modern whaling regulations and conservation efforts.
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