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1) Moby-Dick
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Description
"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...
2) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
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,...
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
479 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
10) Whale mission
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The crew members of the sailing ship Sedna IV brave the treacherous Atlantic Ocean to learn more about whales and the people who hunt them.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.
13) The Rathbones
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion where she studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history.
14) Moby Dick
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
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.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s--the victims of whalers, fishermen, and even the US military. In the Pacific Northwest, fishermen shot them, scientists harpooned...
Author
Series
In those days volume 3
Publisher
Inhabit Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
188 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these whalemen in the North would irrevocably alter the lives of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
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.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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