whaling

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Whales, giants of the deep

1984
An introduction to the largest mammals that ever lived, with a brief history of whaling and how it has threatened the whales' survival.

Proud to be Inuvialuit =

Quviahuktunga inuvialuugama
2010
James, who lives in the small town on Tuktoyuktuk in the Northwest Territories, goes on a trip with his daughter Rebecca to harvest beluga whales.

Hurricane

open seas, 1844
1999
During almost four years at sea with her whaling captain father, thirteen-year-old Rebecca finds life both boring and difficult--especially when the ship is nearly sunk by a hurricane.

Thar she blows!

1997
While visiting a whaling exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds herself transported back in time to a nineteenth century whaling ship.

Loud Emily

2001
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.

Moby Dick, or, The whale

1992
Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

Moby-Dick

2007
Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics)

2002
An adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel about the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that crippled him.

The true adventure of Daniel Hall

2000
Fourteen-year-old Daniel joins a whaling ship in 1856 and after two years of cruel treatment, he deserts the ship for the Siberian wilderness.

Moby Dog

1999
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.

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