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1) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There is a legend among sailors of a fierce white whale, known to some as Moby Dick. This epic story is of Captain Ahab, a one-legged fanatic whose vengeance toward this mighty white whale ignites a mighty clash between good and evil.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The only full-length novel by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" was first published in 1838. It is the story of a boy from Nantucket, Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship, the "Grampus", with the help of his friend Augustus, the ship captain's son. Pym and Augustus experience many unexpected adventures and misfortunes at sea, including mutiny, violent storms, cannibalism, and the destruction of the ship. Eventually,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 27 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s Tasmania's capital Hobart was the second largest whaling port in the world. Total commercial exploitation of whales was the order of the day. As the first truly global industry, whaling was a major contributor to Australia's colonial development, but the hardships and dangers were many. Journey into the beautiful wilderness, delicate ecosystems and rugged coastline of Tasmania to learn about its ties to the "monster of the deep", the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye—the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
9) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
10) Moby Dick
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life--revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954.
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
13) Whale
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1968
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps.
Language
English
14) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Loud Emily
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged.) : col. ill. : 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Peggony-Po, carved out of wood by his father, a one-legged whaler, determines to catch the huge whale that ate his father's leg.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
20) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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