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1) 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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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.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the green hands, old salts, and captains on the high seas during the great age of sail in the 19th century: aboard square-riggers, clippers, whalers, schooners, and packet ships. Life aboard ship was an exciting subculture of American...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"[An] almost unbearably suspenseful story of adventure and survival....as the story advances, a powerfully pervasive sense of melancholy takes hold of the reader, much as the tiger did young Jaffy, and one wonders if it will ever let go. Though Mr. Jamrach is based on a real historical figure, and Jaffy's voyage on that of the ill-fated whaler Essex, the story is entirely Birch's, and her principal characters are her own wonderful invention. She is,...
5) The catch
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded B and B owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler--who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are "nice." After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his...
Author
Publisher
Epicenter Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1893, arctic Alaska is devastated by smallpox. Kayaliruk knows it is time to light the funeral pyres and leave their home. With her surviving children, she packs their dog sled and they set off to find family. Kayaliruk wakes with a bleeding scalp and no memory of the last day. Her daughter was stolen by Yankee whalers, her sons say. They begin chasing the ship, through arctic storms, across immeasurable distances, slipping into the...
Author
Publisher
Patrick Fitzhugh
Pub. Date
[200?]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 70 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. 1 map (folded).
Language
English
Description
A self-guided tour of twelve hidden spots in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and the secrets they hold. You will meet a host of hardy characters who once walked the shores of Wellfleet. Narrated by the author.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark...
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1996-©2002
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
On its last breath, a dying planet cries for independence. As the Moad citizens begin their fight for independence, Ahab marches off alone to settle an age-old score with the menacing android Murato. The crimes of the past will unlock the gate to the future.
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The clock is ticking. Moby Dick. Ahab raises his harpoon one last time. The Great Space Show of 4701 is about to begin! With less than two months until Moad's destruction, Ahab and his crew are still without Dew, without a plan and without so much as a hope for survival. ... Secrets will be revealed, friends will be lost and a new legend will be born in the final volume of Moby Dick.
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