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Whaling Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.57 — 623,979 ratings — published 1851
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,734 ratings — published 2000
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,207 ratings — published 2016
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,648 ratings — published 2007
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,407 ratings — published 1999
Heart of a Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,244 ratings — published 2010
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 6 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,008 ratings — published 2002
Moby Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,880 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 — 786 ratings — published 2003
Rush Oh! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,777 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 3.97 — 6,505 ratings — published 2006
Jamrach's Menagerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,087 ratings — published 2011
Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 1992
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,855 ratings — published 2025
Of Whales and Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.27 — 98 ratings — published 1954
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.44 — 150 ratings — published 2009
Black Hands, White Sails (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.94 — 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 — 3,430 ratings — published 2008
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,529 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 3.65 — 244 ratings — published 2002
In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.62 — 204 ratings — published 2002
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.09 — 76,260 ratings — published 2007
Billy Budd and Other Tales (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.40 — 935 ratings — published 1924
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,989 ratings — published 2018
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 — 1,059 ratings — published 1993
The Whalemen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.71 — 63 ratings — published
The Whale: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,127 ratings — published 2016
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,480 ratings — published 1821
Water Sky: An Alaskan Adventure About Identity, First Love, and Indigenous Traditions for Kids (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.36 — 582 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 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Men and Whales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.06 — 32 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 — 85 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 4.03 — 517 ratings — published 1821
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,122 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 4.10 — 92 ratings — published 1897
In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (Volume 1997)
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 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 1981
The Whalers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.12 — 32 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 3.99 — 985 ratings — published 2007
Grindadráp (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 3.39 — 149 ratings — published 2025
Herman Melville's Whaling Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2004
Popular Sea Tales (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Wake of the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published
HNJ's Indispensable Guide to the Faroe Islands: Pilot Whales and the Whale Drive in the Faroes (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
“Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm, and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when--There she blows!--the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“I denne Skiærsmissel det artig tilgik,
Hver toge til takke den skade de fik,
Og ingen lod anden anmode;
Thi den Harpunerer behote sit Spiud,
Og Hvalen beholte sit Spæk og sin Hud,
De skiltes ad Venner og gode.”
― The Trumpet of Nordland
Hver toge til takke den skade de fik,
Og ingen lod anden anmode;
Thi den Harpunerer behote sit Spiud,
Og Hvalen beholte sit Spæk og sin Hud,
De skiltes ad Venner og gode.”
― The Trumpet of Nordland
