whaling

Including life and times of Herman Melville, introduction, list of characters, synopsis, chapter summaries and commentaries, critical analysis, character analyses, questions for examination and review.

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

An introduction to whales and other sea mammals.

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

A photographic study of whales, providing general information about their origins, form and function, migration, and society; featuring profiles of individual species, including the Blue Whale, the Humpback, and the Killer Whale; and discussing the history of whaling.

The Pequod, commanded by peg-legged Captain Ahab, sets out on a whaling voyage. While the crew, a mixture of nationalities, races, and religions, diligently hunts whales, Ahab stays below deck, emerging only to announce that the real purpose of the trip is to kill Moby Dick, the white sperm whale that tore off his right leg. Once sighted, the whale draws Ahab and the crew into a final battle.

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.

Inupiat police officer Raymond Attla is forced to confront his worst fears when he sets out to investigate the abduction and possible murder of an old woman who was assaulted in her own home during the annual whale hunting festival in Barrow, Alaska.

Discusses the whale, the industry which has slaughtered it almost out of existence, and efforts to sustain its survival in today's world.

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