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Moby Dick

Herman Melville

1851 ★ 4.0

Acount book of the William Wirt (Ship) out of Fairhaven, MA, mastered by Isaac Daggett, on whaling voyages between 1833 and 1842.

William Wirt (Ship)

1833

The whalers

Peter Chrisp

1995

A narrative of the mutiny, on board the ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824

William Lay

1828

Stove by a whale

Thomas Farel Heffernan

1981

The whaleman's adventures in the Sandwich Islands and California

William Henry Thomes

1872

Acount book of the Mermaid (Bark) out of San Francisco, CA, mastered by David Devoll, on a whaling voyage in 1896.

Mermaid (Bark)

1896

The white dawn

James A. Houston

1971

A whaler & trader in the Arctic, 1895 to 1944

Arthur James Allen

1978

[Arnolda (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by George F. Bauldry, on voyage 2 Jan. 1872 - 1 May 1876]

Arnolda (Bark)

1872

Acount book of the Ann Alexander (Ship) and Peri (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Isaac P. Sawtell and Oren Bernard Higgins and kept by Oren Bernard Higgins, on whaling voyages between 1845 and 1853.

Ann Alexander (Ship)

1845

Account book of the Lion (Ship) out of Providence, RI, mastered by Charles F. Howland, on whaling voyages between 1846 and 1856.

Lion (Ship)

1846

The Lost Fleet

Marc Songini

2007

Leviathan

Eric Jay Dolin

2007

Acount book of the Charles and Edward (Bark); mastered by William H. Salter, Frederick P. Cornell and William D. Gifford; on whaling voyages between 1855 and 1865.

Charles and Edward (Bark)

1855

Whaling wives

Emma Mayhew Whiting

1953

Acount book of the Charles W. Morgan (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Benjamin Cleveland, on a whaling voyage between 1916 and 1917.

Charles W. Morgan (Bark)

1916

Gather The Wind

Daphne Clair

1999

Acount book of the Mermaid (Bark) out of Westport, MA, mastered by Geroge W. Jenks, on a whaling voyage between 1860 and 1864.

Mermaid (Bark)

1860

Acount book of the Cincinnati (Ship) out of Stonington, CT, mastered by Frederick Stanton Williams, on a whaling voyage between 1856 and 1860.

Cincinnati (Ship)

1856

Moby Dick

Lew Sayre Schwartz, Steve Urbon, Dick Giordano

2001

Acount book of the Elisha Dunbar (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by Charles H. Robbins, on a whaling voyage between 1854 and 1858.

Elisha Dunbar (Bark)

1854

Acount book of the Matilda Sears (Bark) out of Dartmouth, MA, mastered by Charles Childs, on a whaling voyage between 1873 and 1877.

Matilda Sears (Bark)

1873

The cruise of the Cachalot around the world after sperm whales

Frank Thomas Bullen

1898

Acount book of the Wave (Bark) out of New Bedford, MA, mastered by James H. Hammond, on a whaling voyage between 1877 and 1879.

Wave (Bark)

1877

Acount book of the Corinthian (Ship) out of Bristol, RI, mastered by Nathan B. Heath, on a whaling voyage between 1839 and 1842.

Corinthian (Ship)

1839

Acount book of the Helen Mar (Bark), mastered by George F. Bauldry, on whaling voyages between 1876 and 1880.

Helen Mar (Bark)

1876

[Belvedere (Steam bark), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by S.F. Cottle, kept by William F. Joseph, on voyage from 1907 Mar. 2-Oct. 8]

Belvedere (Steam bark)

1907

Acount book of the Charles Phelps (Ship) out of Stonington, CT, mastered by Billings Burch, on a whaling voyage between 1850 and 1852.

Charles Phelps (Ship)

1850

The solitude of Thomas Cave

Georgina Harding

2007

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