whaling

Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

Nine-year-old Laura writes in her journal about the boredom, excitement, and danger that she and her family face while sailing from Japan to the Arctic seas aboard the whaling ship captained by her father.

The diary of a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the great white whale, Moby Dick.

While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.

While searching for his uncle in Barrow, Alaska, a young boy joins the crew of an Eskimo whaling captain and learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.

Surveys the history of clippers and whaling ships and examines their significance in America's growth as a nation.

Provides a social and economic history of whaling in the United States, discussing the industry's beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century, peak in the mid-eighteenth century, and downfall during the twentieth century. Includes illustrations.

A history of the whaling industry in nineteenth-century America, providing an account of how whales were caught and processed, and including first-hand accounts from men who worked on whalers and the wives who accompanied them.

A companion to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick, " in which Una Spenser tells the story of her life, and discusses her loving marriage to Captain Ahab before the white whale took his leg and drove him into madness.