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Whales Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as whales)
avg rating 3.56 — 607,488 ratings — published 1851
Following Papa's Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whales)
avg rating 3.78 — 692 ratings — published 2014
Song for a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,967 ratings — published 2019
Breathe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as whales)
avg rating 3.89 — 921 ratings — published 2014
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whales)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,841 ratings — published 2018
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whales)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,352 ratings — published 2008
If You Want to See a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,780 ratings — published 2013
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.76 — 41,699 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as whales)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,057 ratings — published 2000
The Whale in My Swimming Pool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as whales)
avg rating 3.90 — 909 ratings — published 2015
The Storm Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as whales)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,035 ratings — published 2013
Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,974 ratings — published 2020
The Heart of a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 3.71 — 502 ratings — published 2020
The Storm Whale in Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,281 ratings — published 2016
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,395 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Whale (Volume 1) (Endangered Animals, 1)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 783 ratings — published 2015
Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.69 — 28,367 ratings — published 2023
Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,137 ratings — published 2015
Whale in a Fishbowl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.83 — 643 ratings — published 2018
To the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 4.13 — 893 ratings — published 2015
Whale Trails, Before and Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.42 — 125 ratings — published 2015
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.59 — 632 ratings — published 2024
And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,733 ratings — published 2018
Amos & Boris (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,937 ratings — published 1971
War of the Whales: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,670 ratings — published 2014
The Snail and the Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.38 — 10,354 ratings — published 2003
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,214 ratings — published 2022
Trapped!: A Whale's Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.11 — 410 ratings — published 2015
The Boy and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 3.90 — 468 ratings — published 2017
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,629 ratings — published
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,107 ratings — published 1987
We Leap Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.17 — 95 ratings — published
I Lived Inside a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.33 — 516 ratings — published 2024
Little Whale (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.91 — 376 ratings — published
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,015 ratings — published 2002
Emma and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 294 ratings — published
A Big Guy Took My Ball! (Elephant & Piggie, #19)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,124 ratings — published 2013
Whales on Stilts (Pals in Peril, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,086 ratings — published 2005
The Whales' Song (English and Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.35 — 555 ratings — published 1990
Baby Beluga (Raffi Songs to Read)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,926 ratings — published 1983
The Little Butterfly That Could (A Very Impatient Caterpillar, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.06 — 839 ratings — published 2021
The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.86 — 783 ratings — published 2019
The Fisherman & the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.16 — 393 ratings — published
A Small Blue Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.85 — 342 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.25 — 401 ratings — published 2013
Dario and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.61 — 170 ratings — published 2016
“Farley Mowat recorded the words of a Newfoundland fisherman, Arthur Pink: They was t’ousands of the big whales on the coast them times. So long as they was on the fishing grounds along of we, I never was afeared of anything; no, nor never felt lonely neither. But after times, when the whales was all done to death, I’d be on the Penguin grounds with nothing livin’ to be seen and I’d get a feeling in me belly, like the world was empty. Yiss, me son, I missed them whales when they was gone. ’Tis strange. Some folks says as whales is only fish. No, bye! They’s too smart for fish.”
― Whale
― Whale
“After his ship had struck a right whale, Enoch Cloud wrote: she quickly ‘slued’ around, raised her enormous head out of the water, fixed her eyes on the boat, and then bellowing commenced, slowly, ‘sterning off!’ It was the most terrible sight I ever witnessed . . . It is painful to witness the death of the smallest of God’s created beings, much more one in which life is so vigorously maintained as the Whale! And when I saw this, the largest and most terrible of all created animals bleeding, quivering, dying a victim to the cunning of man, my feelings were indeed peculiar!
Whalers may not have expressed much sympathy with their quarry, but the death of a mother with calf could break even the toughest façade: ‘That’s when you feel it’, said one whaler, ‘when we killed the mother the milk made the ocean white all around us’.”
― Whale
Whalers may not have expressed much sympathy with their quarry, but the death of a mother with calf could break even the toughest façade: ‘That’s when you feel it’, said one whaler, ‘when we killed the mother the milk made the ocean white all around us’.”
― Whale
