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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick The heyday of whaling examined through the plight of the Whaleship Essex. This is the best sort of popular history writing.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex — an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Harpoon Venture by Gavin Maxwell Publisher Comments The thrilling account of one man's four-year sea chase for the thirty-foot basking shark in the Hebrides off Scotland shortly after World War II.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin Publisher Comments This absorbing history demonstrates that few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Dolin provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves. 32 pages of illustrations.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale by Jim Murphy Publisher Comments Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Peter Nichols Publisher Comments In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate by Owen Chase Publisher Comments On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Sea Whaling by Granville Mawer Publisher Comments Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next. Danger, abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for two centuries. The Nantucketers, the first and the best, taught the world how whaling should be done. Ahab's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage in the Ship Charles W. Morgan, 1849-1853 by Nelson Cole Haley Publisher Comments "This classic true story of a voyage on the CHARLES W. MORGAN is both a wonderful read and an excellent source of information about American whaling in the 19th century." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of IN THE HEART OF THE... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster by Marc Songini Publisher Comments Its the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Many whalers give up the life... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship by Eleanor Mathews Publisher Comments In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend two years on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to Antarctica. Only recently married, Murphy had many regrets at... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale by Timothy Severin Publisher Comments Tim Severin, adventurer and writer has won awards from the Royal Geographical Society, and its Scottish counterpart. This book of travel writing explores the history and myth of Moby Dick.... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea 1820-1920 by Joan Druett Publisher Comments First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harpoon Venture by Gavin Maxwell Publisher Comments Here are the wonderful islands, the strange facts of shark life, birds, and other fish in vivid brilliance; here too the men and the boats and the excitement and the disappointments in the working life". -- Kirkus... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling by Andrew Darby Publisher Comments From one-hundred-fifty-ton barnacled Blues to the sleek, embattled Minke, whales have been hunted worldwide to near extinction. Despite efforts to halt the killing, the future of these majestic mammals-known as “mind in the water”-is again in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Tells the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex, which in its time was as mythic as the sinking of the Titanic and which inspired Melville's classic Moby Dick, recounting its doomed crew's ninety-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale (Penguin Classics) by Owen Chase Publisher Comments In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship "Essex", thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving 20 crew members floating in three small boats. The incident provided the inspiration for Melville's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Whale Hunt by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283).... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale by Tim Severin Publisher Comments Among travel and adventure writers, Tim Severin occupies a unique place in that, as Jan Morris says, he "uniquely combines in himself the gifts of the adventurer, the historian, and the litterateur." Over the years, Severin has sailed in a leather boat... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase Publisher Comments Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex is the gripping account of a ship's encounter with a great white whale and the crew's harrowing plight for survival on the open seas. This edition contains Owen Chase's original 1921 narrative, as well as two others... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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