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	Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
$Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete$	Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and…	OL1103152W
	Moby Dick, or, The white whale	Patricia Daniels	A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuitof the white whale Moby Dick.	OL13571984W
	The deadly chase	Angela Elwell Hunt	While continuing her voyage to America, Kimberly encounters not only a deaf girl who attempts to save a baby whale but also a Jewish boy who accepts Christ.	OL14852391W
	Works (Billy Budd / Confidence-Man / Moby Dick / Piazza Tales)	Herman Melville	Moby Dick The Confidence-Man [The Piazza Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102742W/The_Piazza_Tales): - The Piazza - [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartl…	OL14953584W
	Gone a-whaling	Murphy, Jim	Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.	OL15054250W
	The second adventure	Dustin Evans,Baron Specter	While in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, Joey and Tank board a whaler that is on display and soon find themselves part of its ghostly crew.	OL15082659W
	Demon of the waters	Gregory Gibson	Documents the mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was organized by twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin.	OL15859431W
	A thousand pails of water	Ron Roy	A small boy's infectious determination saves the life of a whale beached near an oriental whaling village.	OL16062543W
	If ever I return again	Corinne Demas	In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to…	OL16550610W
	Dangerous work	Arthur Conan Doyle	Conan Doyle's diary and log of his time served as a surgeon on a whaling ship in 1880. Annotated, and includes several incidental pieces derived from his experience, including the Sherlock Holmes st…	OL16672658W
	Whales vs whalers	Animal Welfare Institute	vii, 56 p. : 28 cm	OL19397406W
	A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity	Sandra Pollard	On August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young …	OL20146048W
	Moby-Dick, Herman Melville	SparkNotes,Herman Melville	"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.	OL21848786W
	Whaling	Charles Boardman Hawes	"the first whalemen of whom we have record; the growth of the European whaling industry, and of its offspring, the American whaling industry; primitive whaling among the savages of North America;…	OL2575592W
	Old whaling days	William Barron	On the 27th of March 1849, the barque Truelove, under Captain J. Parker, left Hull bound for the Davis Straits and the season's whaling. Taking up his duties as cabin boy was her youngest apprentice,…	OL2791527W
	Moby Dick	Herman Melville,Bernice Selden	A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.	OL2989251W
	Hunted mammals of the sea	Robert M. McClung	Discusses the characteristics of whales, porpoises, polar bears, and other mammals of the sea, the human exploitation of these animals, and efforts to preserve and increase their numbers.	OL3297846W
	Thar she blows	Sue Kassirer	While visiting a whaling exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds herself transported back in time to a nineteenth century whaling ship.	OL573859W
	Whale snow	Debby Dahl Edwardson	At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale.	OL5954392W
	Horseshoe Harry and the Whale	Adèle De Leeuw	A cowboy eager to see the sea is shanghaied onto a whaling ship whose captain is interested only in playing the bassoon.	OL6100410W