For Further Study

Websites

Books for Children

About Whaling

  • Carrick, Carol. Whaling Days. New York: Clarion Books, 1993.
  • Day, Edward C. John Tabor's Ride. New York: Knopf Books For Young Readers, 1989.
  • Draper, Charla L. Cooking on Nineteeth-Century Whaling Ships (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes). Mankato: Capstone Press, 1998.
  • Drummond, Allan, and Herman Melville. Moby Dick. 1st American ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
  • Ell, Sarah. There She Blows: Sealing and Whaling Days in New Zealand. Aukland: The Bush Press, 1984.
  • Foster, Mark. Whale Port: Whale Port. 1 ed. Austin: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2007.
  • Frederick, Heather Vogel. The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed (Aladdin Historical Fiction). Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2004.
  • Gourley, Catherine. Hunting Neptune's Giants. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995.
  • Grant, Gordon. Greasy Luck: A Whaling Sketchbook. New York: Dover Publications, 2004.
  • Hough, Henry Beetle. Great Days of Whaling (School Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
  • Jernegan, and Laura. A Whaling Captain's Daughter: The Diary of Laura Jernegan, 1868-1871 (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs). Mankato: Capstone Press, 2000.
  • Kassirer, Sue. Thar She Blows!: Whaling in the 1860s. Norwalk, CT: Trudy Corp., 1997.
  • Krupinski, Loretta. Bluewater Journal: The Voyage of the Sea Tiger. 1st ed. New York: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1995.
  • Mckissack, Fredrick, and Patricia C. Mckissack. Black Hands, White Sails (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books). New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
  • Meadowcroft, Enid Lamonte. When Nantucket Men Went Whaling. Champaign: Garrard Publishing Company, 1971.
  • Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2006.
  • Murphy, Jim. Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale. New York: Clarion Books, 2004.
  • Osborne, Alice Cushing;, and Nancy Cabot Gardiner. Father's Gone A Whaling. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
  • Petrillo, Valerie. Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages. New York: Independent Pub Group, 2003.
  • Philbrick, Nathaniel. Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, Adapted for Young People from In The Heart of the Sea. New York: Scholastic, 2003.
  • Sandler, Martin. Trapped In Ice!. Mexico: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.
  • Shapiro, Irwin. The Story of Yankee Whaling, By the Editors of American Heritage. Narrative By Irwin Shapiro, in Consultation With Edouard A. Stackpole. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co.; Book Trade, 1959.
  • Stanley, Diane. The True Adventure of Daniel Hall (Picture Puffins). New York City: Puffin, 2000.

About Whales

  • Nicklin, Flip, and Linda Nicklin. Face to Face with Whales. Washington, DC: National Geographic Children's Books, 2010.
  • Papastravrou, Vassilli. Whale (DK Eyewitness Books). New York: DK CHILDREN, 2004.
  • Thomson, Sarah L. Amazing Whales! (I Can Read Book 2). New York: HarperTrophy, 2006.
  • Ward, Nathalie. Do Whales Ever...? Rockport, MA: Down East Books, 1997.
  • Whaanga, Mere. The Legend of the Seven Whales of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti. New York: Scholastic, 1989.
  • Whittell, Giles. The Story of Three Whales. New York: Walker Books Ltd, 1989.
  • Simon, Seymour. Whales. New York: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2006.

Books for Adults

  • Allen, Everett S. Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet. Berkeley: Parnassus Press (Il), 1983.
  • Ashley, Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler. New York: Algrove Publishing, 2001.
  • Bockstoce, J. R. Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic. First ed. New Bedford: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1977.
  • Bockstoce, John R. Whales, Ice, & Men. New York: Seattle Univ. Of Washington Press, 1986.
  • Boeri, David. People of the Ice Whale: Eskimos, White Men, and the Whale. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985.
  • Browne, John Ross. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise,: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.
  • Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales. Boston: Public Domain Books, 2009.
  • Chatterton, E. Keble. Whalers and Whaling: The Story of the Whaling Ships up to the Present Day. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925.
  • Cheever, Henry T. The Whale and His Captors; or, The whalemen's adventures, and the whale's biography as gathered on the homeward cruise of the "Commodore Preble." Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Of Michigan Library, 2001.
  • Cherfas, Jeremy. The Hunting of the Whale: A Tragedy that Must End. Boston: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.
  • Church, Albert Cook. Whale Ships and Whaling. New York: Bonanaza, 1950.
  • Creighton, Margaret S. Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Currie, Stephen. Thar She Blows: American Whaling in the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2001.
  • Darby, Andrew. Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling. New York : Da Capo Press, 2008.
  • Davis, William M. 1815-1891. Nimrod of the sea, or The American whaleman. Toronto: Nabu Press, 2010.
  • Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
  • Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
  • Druett, Joan. Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920. New York: Upne, 2001.
  • Druett, Joan. In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon. New York: Algonquin Books, 2004.
  • Francis, Daniel. History of World Whaling. London: Penguin Usa, 1990.
  • Heller, Peter. The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals. New York City: Free Press, 2008.
  • Hoare, Philip. The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea. New York: Ecco, 2010.
  • Hohman, Elmo Paul. The American Whaleman;: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry,. London: Longmans, Green And Co, 1928.
  • Hough, Henry Beetle, and Emma Mayhew Whiting. Whaling Wives of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1965.
  • Josephson, Elizabeth A., Susan A. Lebo, Judith N. Lund, Randall R. Reeves, and Tim D. Smith. Nineteenth-century Ship-based Catches of Gray Whales, Eschrichtius robustus, in the Eastern North Pacific.: An article from: Marine Fisheries Review. Washington D.C.: Superintendent Of Documents, 2010.
  • Karttunen, Frances Ruley. The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket's Oars. New Bedford: Spinner Publications, 2005.
  • Lund, Judith N. Whaling masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing From American Ports: A Compilation of Sources. New York: Ten Pound Book Co, 2001.
  • Mandell, Daniel R. Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780--1880 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Mawer, Granville Allen. Ahab's Trade. London: Allen & Unwin, 2000.
  • Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, Or, the White Whale. Toronto: Nabu Press, 2010.
  • Nichols, Peter. Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season. New York: Putnam Adult, 2009.
  • Norling, Lisa. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
  • Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Reissue ed. Boston: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001.
  • Purrington, Philip F. Albert Cook Church: Photographs and a Biographical Sketch. New Bedford, MA: The Trustees Of The Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1969.
  • Schneider, Paul. The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2001.
  • Songini, Marc. The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.
  • Spears, John Randolph. The Story of the New England Whalers. London: Digital Text Publishing Company, 2009.
  • Stackpole, Edouard A. Sea Hunters. New York: Greenwood Press, 1973.
  • Stackpole, Edouard A. The Charles W. Morgan : The Last Wooden Whaleship. First Edition ed. New York: Meredith Press, 1967.
  • Starbuck, Alexander. History Of The American Whale Fishery: From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876 (1878). New York: Kessinger Publishing, Llc, 2010.
  • Sullivan, Robert. A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could. New York: Scribner, 2002.
  • Warrin, Donald. So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927. Dartmouth, Massachusetts: University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2010.
  • Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
  • Whipple, A. B. C. Yankee Whalers in the South Seas. New York: Easton Press, 1987.
  • Williams, Harold. One Whaling Family. Boston: Houghton Mifflin., 1964.