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Whale Hunter

Product Description: A harpooner in the whale ship Charles W. Morgan from 1849 to 1853, Nelson Cole Haley embarked on a hunt that took him from New Bedford, Massachusetts, around the world. Called a real-life version of Moby Dick, his memoir lends an authentic voice to those who were part of a high-risk business that included working on slippery whale carcasses surrounded by sharks and being towed at high speed by a harpooned whale, known as a Nantucket sleigh ride...read more

By Nelson Cole Haley

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Hardcover:

9781848320963 | Naval Inst Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A harpooner in the whale ship Charles W.

A Year With a Whaler

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By Walter Noble Burns

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Hardcover:

9781110638123 | Bibliolife, June 15, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

Paperback:

9781110638109 | Bibliolife, June 15, 2009, cover price $26.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781444640120 | Lightning Source Inc, May 30, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today.

9781933698021 | 1500 Books, May 1, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In its heyday there were thousands of whaling ships in every major sea and the lure of freedom, money and adventure was a siren call to many young men including the author who responded to a Help Wanted ad for, as he says, .

Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whalesip Essex

Product Description: Never in the history of whale hunting had a ship been attacked by a whale. But then the unthinkable happened. On November 20, 1820, the whale ship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with barely any supplies and little hope...read more

By Nathaniel Philbrick

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780976193203 | Audio Bookshelf, January 30, 2005, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780974171197 | Unabridged edition (Audio Bookshelf, January 30, 2005), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Prebinding:

9781435287389 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Never in the history of whale hunting had a ship been attacked by a whale.

Mayflower: The True Story of the Whalesip Essex

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

By Nathaniel Philbrick

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9780613977791 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

Tells the incredible story of the eight teenage men who, despite watching many of their other shipmates die, survived three months on a lifeboat--with little food or water--after having their whaling boat sunk by an angry sperm whale. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

By Nathaniel Philbrick

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Hardcover:

9780399237959 | Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Paperback:

9780142400685, titled "The Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex" | Reprint edition (Puffin, March 1, 2004), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Reinforced:

9780606296687 | Demco Media, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

By Jil Fine

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9780516278728, titled "The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick" | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

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9780516243283, titled "The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick" | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

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9780613679459 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

Storms, Ice, and Whales: The Antarctic Adventures of a Dutch Artist on a Norwegian Whaler

Product Description: During the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Dutch artist Willem van der Does talked his way aboard a Norwegian whaler and made a daring, often dangerous voyage to Antarctica in 1923. "Storms, Ice, and Whales" is the riveting eyewitness account of his nine-month ocean journey, including 141 original illustrations by Van der Does...read more

By Ruth Van Baak Griffioen (trans) and Willem Van Der Does

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9780802821256 | Eerdmans Pub Co, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: During the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Dutch artist Willem van der Does talked his way aboard a Norwegian whaler and made a daring, often dangerous voyage to Antarctica in 1923.

Whales of the World

Product Description: Voyageur Naturally is your one-stop resource for books about nature and country sports. We have one of the largest selections available for both young adult and adult readers. Zoos and aquariums, natural history museums, gift shops, sporting book retailers, and other booksellers all appreciate the depth and quality of our series and our commitment to providing up-to-date information from leading naturalists and scientists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Phil Clapham

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Hardcover:

9780896583597 | Voyageur Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Cloaked in the mystery of the sea, whales lead lives that are largely removed from the sight of humans.

Paperback:

9780896585379 | Voyageur Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Voyageur Naturally is your one-stop resource for books about nature and country sports.

A Whaling Captain

Product Description: Book by Zonderman, Jon (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jon Zonderman

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9781559160414 | Rourke Pub Group, September 1, 1994, cover price $23.27 | About this edition: Book by Zonderman, Jon

The Whaler and the Privateer: The Story of Two Ships, 1795-1807

By Colin Brown, Diana Brown, Willam Mann and William Wilkes Morris

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Paperback:

9780963820808 | Letter of Marque Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $23.50

"She Was a Sister Sailor": The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851

Product Description: Now in Mystic Seaport's G.W. Blunt White Library, Mary Brewster's journals are here published for the first time. As the most complete account of the female experience at sea, this volume will be of great interest to both scholars and enthusiasts of whaling and maritime history, Pacific history, and women's history...read more

By Mary Brewster and Joan Druett

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Hardcover:

9780913372609 | 1 edition (Mystic Seaport Museum Inc, June 1, 1992), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Now in Mystic Seaport's G.

The Yankee Whaler

Product Description: "He went whaling prepared as no man had been before him, and he went with an eager and an open mind. He describes as no other author has done the multifarious duties of the cooper, the whalecraftsman, the rigger, the subtleties of boat gear and of stowage, the homely whims and prejudices of the most conservative and practical of men â¦ he has returned unsoured from his voyaging, and now lays his booty before us...read more

By Clifford W. Ashley

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9780486268545 | Dover Pubns, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "He went whaling prepared as no man had been before him, and he went with an eager and an open mind.

The Cruise of the Gipsy: The Journal of John Wilson, Surgeon on a Whaling Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1839-1843

By Honore Forster (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780877704881 | Ye Galleon Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $32.50

Following the Sea

Product Description: An adventure story that provides insight into life in the forecastle of vessels in the mid-1800s and into the lives of those ordinary heroes who left their snug harbours to follow the sea and who had the strength and courage to meet the challenges it offered.

By Benjamin Doane

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9780920852880 | Yankee Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An adventure story that provides insight into life in the forecastle of vessels in the mid-1800s and into the lives of those ordinary heroes who left their snug harbours to follow the sea and who had the strength and courage to meet the challenges it offered.

Paperback:

9780920852903 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An adventure story that provides insight into life in the forecastle of vessels in the mid-1800s and into the lives of those ordinary heroes who left their snug harbours to follow the sea and who had the strength and courage to meet the challenges it offered.

The Whale and His Captors: Or, the Whaleman's Adventures, and the Whale Biography, As Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the "Commodore Preble"

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

By Henry Theodore Cheever

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9780877704874 | Reprint edition (Ye Galleon Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

The Journals of Addison Pratt: Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, a Mormon Mission to the Society Islands, and Early Cali

By S. George Ellsworth (editor) and Addison Pratt

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Hardcover:

9780874803358 | Univ of Utah Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $25.00

The Hunting of the Whale: A Tragedy That Must End

Product Description: Whales, the largest animals ever to exist on Earth and the campaign to save them, have caught the popular imagination. In this book Jeremy Cherfas covers the biology of these creatures, the history of whaling, and the campaigns of conservationists to save the great whales.

By Jeremy Cherfas

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Hardcover:

9780370311425 | Bodley Head, December 1, 1988, cover price $25.90

Paperback:

9780140118445 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Whales, the largest animals ever to exist on Earth and the campaign to save them, have caught the popular imagination.

Narrative of the Wreck and Loss of the Whaling Brig William and Joseph

By Elisha Dexter

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Hardcover:

9780877704188, titled "Narrative of the Wreck & Loss of the Whaling Brig William & Joseph" | Ye Galleon Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $14.95

Paperback:

9780877704171 | Ye Galleon Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $9.95

Two Years in the Pacific and Arctic Ocean and China, Being a Journal of Every Day Life on Board Ship, Interesting Information in Regard to the inhabit

By James F. Munger

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Hardcover:

9780877704010 | Ye Galleon Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $14.95

Saving the Whale

Describes different kinds of whales, explains why they are hunted and killed, and tells why it is important to stop whaling

By Michael Bright

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9780531170618 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1987, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Describes different kinds of whales, explains why they are hunted and killed, and tells why it is important to stop whaling

The Whale War

Looks at the attempts of conservationists to save whales from commercial killings, discusses the International Whaling Commission, and reviews mankind's relationship with the whale

By David Day

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Hardcover:

9780871567758 | Sierra Club Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at the attempts of conservationists to save whales from commercial killings, discusses the International Whaling Commission, and reviews mankind's relationship with the whale

Paperback:

9780871567789 | Sierra Club Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Looks at the attempts of conservationists to save whales from commercial killings, discusses the International Whaling Commission, and reviews mankind's relationship with the whale

The Book of Whales

Drawings and paintings illustrate thirty-three species of whales and are accompanied by information about their dimensions, habitats, behavior, and relations with other sea life

By Richard Ellis

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9780394733715 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1985, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Drawings and paintings illustrate thirty-three species of whales and are accompanied by information about their dimensions, habitats, behavior, and relations with other sea life

Life and Death of Whales

Describes the characteristics and behavior of whales, examines the practices of the whaling industry, and discusses the whale conservation movement

By Robert Burton

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Hardcover:

9780876633410 | 2 rev sub edition (Universe Pub, June 1, 1980), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Provides a study of whales and the whaling industry and legislative efforts to save these mammals from extinction

Paperback:

9780822603788, titled "The Life and Death of Whales" | 2 rev enl edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 1, 1983), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the characteristics and behavior of whales, examines the practices of the whaling industry, and discusses the whale conservation movement

The Great Whale Book

A survey on the types of whales includes discussions of their biology, relations with humans, and the fight to prevent their extinction

By John Kelly

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9780874914689 | Acropolis Books Inc, January 1, 1982, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A survey on the types of whales includes discussions of their biology, relations with humans, and the fight to prevent their extinction

So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins, Whales, and Men

Explores the relationship between human beings and the great sea mammals, the whales, and dolphins, and our responsibility to end the operations that are decimating the world's whale population

By Robert McNally

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9780316562928 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1981, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between human beings and the great sea mammals, the whales, and dolphins, and our responsibility to end the operations that are decimating the world's whale population

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