whaling

Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.

Presents the story of Mocha Dick, the real-life whale who was the inspiration behind the classic novel "Moby Dick." Mocha Dick wreaked havoc on the whaling ships that attacked him, until the day he was finally killed, fifty-nine years after he was first spotted.

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.

Ismael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Acab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.

Lyddie, the wife of successful whaler Edward Berry, finds her life turned upside down after her husband is lost at sea, forcing her to rebuild her identity and adapt to life as a widow, while struggling to keep her property out of the hands of her closest male relative.