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1) Moby-Dick
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"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...
3) Whale snow
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm
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.
6) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Modern Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A simplified version of the classic sea story, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale, who defied capture.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
40 pages
Description
A young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information on the history of whaling, whale-watching, and the conservation movement to ensure the safety of whales.
9) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
84 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Melville's story about Captain Ahab's search for Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
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,...
11) Moby-Dick
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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
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
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"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, and her place on the island, by employing...
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