Burnett, D. Graham.
Summary: Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5072 BURMelville, Herman
Summary: Melville wrote of his masterpiece, "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." In part, Moby-Dick 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCarrick, Carol.
Summary: Surveys the whaling industry, ranging from hunting in colonial America to modern whaling regulations and conservation efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 639.2 CARMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1989
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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Summary: "Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860's New England. Inspired by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts, drifting north into the draft riots in New York and , finally, meets his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town."-Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONMcGuire, Ian.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV NORBarrett, Shirley
Summary: In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ONETaliaferro, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.802 TALSummary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moby 2001Gunning, Sally.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 0000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POESmall, George L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 SMASummary: 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 megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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Summary: A dramatic rendering of life aboard a whale-saving pirate ship traces the efforts of a vigilante crew to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the Antarctica seas, in an account that profiles the Sea Shepherd Society of radical environmentalists and the charismatic captain Paul Watson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 333.95 HELPeck, Gregory
Summary: Captain Ahab, obsessed with the whale who disfigured him, forces his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBWoodman, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2000