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Describes whales and their habitats followed by detailed accounts of whaling expeditions, both the traditional Inuit and the commercial forms.

A chronicle of the fictional whaleship, Ulysses, describing the details of her building from design to launching.

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica. For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey-a Japanese whaling fleet-through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The ship is black, flies under a...

A trouble shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing. teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate.

Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.

Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling...

"Chris Bowen is the star quarterback of his high school team, and his dream of getting a college scholarship and then playing the NFL seems in reach until he takes a vicious hit to his head in a game and starts having hallucinations. Or are they visions? He can't tell. Either way, he's frightened by what is happening to him. His girlfriend and friends suspect something weird is going on with him, but they don't know what or how to help him. When a...

Tracing the footsteps of Shackleton, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the tragic legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old...

The journal of a teenage boy aboard a whaling vessel, relating his winter in Siberia and numerous other adventures.