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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 40
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later,...
Author
Language
English
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 a curious gift...
6) Mighty Moby
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bedtime story of a whale hunt inspired by the classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, here with a new twist. Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
7) Connecticut
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2018
Language
English
Description
"From a cannonball stuck in Keeler Tavern's wall to a chorus of chimes at the American Clock and Watch Museum, there's lots to see and do in Connecticut! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Connecticut special. A table of contents, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, and an index support readers and extend learning"--Provided...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the 20-man crew set out in three small boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive. This book shares a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of the whaling tradition,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear... Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence -- and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble...
11) Arch of bone
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
12) Secrets so deep
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago Avril's mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline. Local legend claims that the women in the waves-- ghosts from old whaling stories-- called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Avril doesn't believe in ghosts, and has spent the years trying to make sense of the strange bits she does remember from that night: Stars falling into the sea. A blinding light. A tight grip on her wrist....
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction. --Publisher.
14) Heartless
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the age of seven, in a London workhouse, newly-orphaned James meets ten-year-old Peter. Mysterious, mercurial, thoughtless to the point of cruelty, Peter nonetheless takes a liking to James. The two forge a strange friendship, bound together by their shared love of stories...But one fateful night, Peter vanishes from his bed, and in the morning James is found lying alone and broken in the courtyard outside...Over twenty years later, on the deck...
Author
Publisher
Mims House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses swore this wasn't a whale, but some new, fearsome creature. As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly. Across the nation, people shivered in fear. Then,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The tale of the giant white whale immortalized in Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel was inspired by horrifying real events: the shipwreck of a whaling boat and the desperate efforts of its twenty-man crew to survive. With accessible text and vivid full-color imagery, this engrossing volume investigates both the legend and the true story behind Moby Dick. Entertaining fast facts and insightful sidebars will keep elementary-level readers engaged...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, Latina anthropologist Claudia retreats from Seattle to Neah Bay, a Native American whaling village on the jagged Pacific coast. Claudia yearns to lose herself to the songs of the tribe and the secrets of her guide, a spirited hoarder named Maggie. But when, spurred by his mother's failing memory, Maggie's prodigal son Peter returns seeking...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak...
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