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1) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A renewed interest in "Moby-Dick" in the early 20th century would help to establish it as an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance, firmly placing it amongst the greatest of all American novels. Based on the real life events depicted in the "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex" and the legend of "Mocha Dick", an albino sperm whale, whose killing is described in the May 1839 issue...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting, Captain Howes Norris was brutally murdered. When the men in the whaleboats returned, they found four crew members...
5) Moby Dick
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fun, excitement and the whale that captured the world's imagination add up to big family entertainment. A lonely boy understands the plaintive cries of the orca confined to an aquatic park's too-small tank and does something about it in Free Willy. Watch and understand why audiences have loved Willie. The boy rejoins Willy in his new ocean home and together they confront a burning oil spill in Free Willy 2. In Free Willy 3, the best of the Free Willy...
7) Whale snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about Inupiats and the bowhead whale.
9) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Herman Melvilles classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahabs hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy.
10) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
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Language
English
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A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
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