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Whaling Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.57 — 627,815 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 — 121,567 ratings — published 2000
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,497 ratings — published 2016
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,666 ratings — published 2007
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,450 ratings — published 1999
Heart of a Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,275 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 — 1,017 ratings — published 2002
Moby Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,881 ratings — published 2002
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.71 — 794 ratings — published 2003
Rush Oh! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,779 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 — 6,518 ratings — published 2006
Jamrach's Menagerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,102 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 4.01 — 2,114 ratings — published 2025
Of Whales and Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.23 — 99 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 3.45 — 152 ratings — published 2009
Black Hands, White Sails (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.96 — 90 ratings — published 1999
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,440 ratings — published 2008
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,560 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 — 245 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 — 205 ratings — published 2002
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,279 ratings — published 2007
Billy Budd and Other Tales (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.40 — 936 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 — 4,017 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 — 1,067 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 3.58 — 1,135 ratings — published 2016
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,486 ratings — published 1821
Water Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.36 — 587 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 — 518 ratings — published 1821
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as whaling)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,166 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 4.11 — 93 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 — 50 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 — 990 ratings — published 2007
Grindadráp (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as whaling)
avg rating 3.42 — 156 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
“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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“The greenhands, by necessity, were taught the ropes at sea. The captain distributed them among the boats, so as not to slow its progress when they inevitably caught a crab with their oars, breaking the rhythm of the boat. From the stern, the mate called out ‘Break your backs!’ as each took an oar. It was best to be quick, for the ‘iron-fisted and iron-hearted officers’ often ‘beat their information in with anything that came to hand’.”
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