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Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete
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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… |
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Moby Dick, or, The white whale
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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. |
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Black Hands, White Sails
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Patricia McKissack,Fredrick McKissack |
A history of African-American whalers between 1730 and 1880, describing their contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement. |
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Works (Billy Budd / Confidence-Man / Moby Dick / Piazza Tales)
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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… |
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Brilliant
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Jane Brox |
Jane Brox has done us all a service by reminding us that the privilege of having artificial light instantly available is neither universal nor possesses a long history. Most of our ancestors lived in… |
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Jamrach's menagerie
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Carol Birch |
Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with the escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach… |
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Emanuel and the whale oil lamp
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Heidi Smith Hyde |
Nine-year-old Emanuel stows away aboard a whaling ship until the Hanukkah candles in a window light the way to bring him home. |
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Dangerous work
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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… |
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Moby Dick, or The White Whale
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Geraldine McCaughrean,Manuel Broncano,Mariano Antolin |
A young seaman 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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Moby Dick
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Will Eisner |
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. |
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity
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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 … |
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Old whaling days
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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,… |
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Kaloolah
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William Starbuck Mayo |
This novel is an adventure/romance/satire by a New York physician about a Yankee's adventures at sea and in North Africa and his marriage to a princess of a central African "lost kingdom." This is th… |
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville,Bernice Selden |
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick. |
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Hunted mammals of the sea
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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. |
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Yann and the whale
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Hanze. |
When a whale calf saves the life of a boy on his first whaling adventure, the boy reciprocates and lies to spare the mother whale's life. |
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Final Voyage
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Peter Nichols |
A maritime adventure set against a lush historical backdrop. In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would fo… |
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John Tabor's ride
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Edward C. Day |
John Tabor complains about everything on his first whaling voyage until he meets a strange old man who takes him on an extraordinary journey. |
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Thomas Welcome Roys, America's pioneer of modern whaling
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Frederick P. Schmitt |
Biography of Thomas Welcome Roys, 1816-1877, the American founder of the modern whaling industry. |
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The voyage of Patience Goodspeed
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Heather Vogel Frederick |
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts… |
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