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1) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this outstanding work, Ishmael, the narrator, recounts the epic story of the insane quest that he becomes a part of as he boards the whaleship Pequod. It is the story of Captain Ahab, the vengeful whaler and his pursuit of Moby Dick, the elusive white whale, who on a previous voyage destroyed his boat and left Ahab a crippled and obsessive monomaniac. The insanity and the blind need for vengeance evoke fear and doubt in his crew members as Ahab...
Author
Publisher
Picador Usa
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (473 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Highlights both the controversial whaling trade and the tactics that the Sea Shepherd, along with its staff and volunteers, uses in an attempt to cripple its foundation. This action-packed, adrenaline-fueled environmental adventure series follows the group's three-month sojourn across the icy Antarctic waters at the far end of the globe.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
2 DVD set.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (301 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the three-month sojourn of the staff and volunteers of the Sea Shepherd and the tactics used to cripple the whaling trade. Viewers are taken on an adventure that spotlights how the group takes action against alleged illegal whaling operations.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (473 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ongoing struggle to end Japanese whaling. Season 3 gives you an up close view of the latest action from Antarctica as the battle over whaling heightens.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society return for a new adrenaline-fueled season of Whale Wars, waging a life-and-death battle to find and stop Japanese ships from hunting whales in the name of research.
11) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
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