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Whaling Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.56 — 607,462 ratings — published 1851
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,052 ratings — published 2000
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,048 ratings — published 2016
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.03 — 45,185 ratings — published 1999
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,593 ratings — published 2007
Heart of a Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,113 ratings — published 2010
Moby Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,879 ratings — published 2002
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, Adapted for Young People from In the Heart of the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.84 — 985 ratings — published 2002
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.72 — 756 ratings — published 2003
Rush Oh! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,756 ratings — published 2015
Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published 1973
The Widow's War (Satucket, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,436 ratings — published 2006
Jamrach's Menagerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,037 ratings — published 2011
Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published 1992
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.43 — 147 ratings — published 2009
Black Hands, White Sails (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.92 — 89 ratings — published 1999
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,352 ratings — published 2008
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,396 ratings — published 2010
Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.66 — 236 ratings — published 2002
In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.63 — 198 ratings — published 2002
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,677 ratings — published 2007
Billy Budd and Other Tales (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.41 — 922 ratings — published 1924
Whale Trails, Before and Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.42 — 125 ratings — published 2015
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,000 ratings — published 1993
The Whalemen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.69 — 62 ratings — published
Of Whales and Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.26 — 93 ratings — published 1954
The Whale: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,100 ratings — published 2016
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,437 ratings — published 1821
Water Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.35 — 573 ratings — published 1987
The history of Nantucket,: Being a compendious account of the first settlement of the island by the English, together with the rise and progress of the whale fishery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1972
A History of the American Whale Fishery (Political Economy and Public Law)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Men and Whales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.03 — 31 ratings — published 1991
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.86 — 83 ratings — published 2000
History of the American Whale Fishery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1878
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.02 — 510 ratings — published 1821
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.56 — 5,967 ratings — published 1846
A Window Back: Photography in a Whaling Port (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 1997
The Cruise of the Cachalot: Around the World After Sperm Whales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.08 — 89 ratings — published 1897
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (Volume 1997) (National Bureau of Economic ... on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 1997
Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.07 — 46 ratings — published 1981
The Whalers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.10 — 31 ratings — published 1979
The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.00 — 971 ratings — published 2007
Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,590 ratings — published 1966
"There she blows:" a narrative of a whaling voyage,: In the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans (The American maritime library)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1849
Whale Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,589 ratings — published 2024
Whaling in New Jersey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Involution Ocean (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 3.65 — 628 ratings — published 1977
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.22 — 138 ratings — published 2019
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.02 — 53 ratings — published 2002
“We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.”
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“Most of the year he worked at sea on a whaling ship, and when he was home he worked as a handyman, endowed with a knack for sniffing out both the problem and a solution to virtually any constructional issue by merely setting eyes on it.”
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