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Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Daughter by : Laura Jernegan
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Daughter written by Laura Jernegan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Laura Jernegan, a young girl who traveled with her family on her father's whaling ship in the 1860s who records her schooling, dangerous whale hunts, and the activities of her baby brother. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.
Book Synopsis A Whaling Captain's Daughter by : Megan O'Hara
Download or read book A Whaling Captain's Daughter written by Megan O'Hara and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Whaling Captain's Daughter by : Laura Jernegan
Download or read book Whaling Captain's Daughter written by Laura Jernegan and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sea Captain's Daughter by : Cynthia Gallant-Simpson
Download or read book Sea Captain's Daughter written by Cynthia Gallant-Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, fourteen year old, Sarah Owen Burgess, daughter of a Nantucket whaling ship captain, took pen in hand to begin a personal journal. What resulted was a history of Nantucket and Nantucketers at the end of an historical period as her beloved island slipped into hard times. When the railroad came to the mainland, making shipment of whale oil and oil products more efficient, New Bedford usurped Nantucket's prosperity leaving the island down on its luck and insecure about the future and Sarah recorded it all. Her inspiration for her role as a woman in a time when women's roles were few were the suffragette and abolitionist, Lucretia Mott and astronomer, Maria Mitchell, also daughters of Nantucket. High sea adventure, exotic ports, romance and, above all, a close-up look at Nantucket history.
Download or read book Petticoat Whalers written by Joan Druett and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.
Download or read book Ahab's Daughter written by Ron Vitale and published by Ron Vitale. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sea of danger and magic. A family that can’t stay clear of the water… Morgan refuses to let her twin brother suffer the same fate as their whale-obsessed father Captain Ahab. Despite her efforts to keep Nathan on dry land, her brother can’t resist the siren song of the sea and rumors of untold treasures on the Island of Nightmares… Before Nathan can drop anchor and find his bounty, his crew encounters an ominous force. He’s convinced the creature is somehow connected to his father’s past and that one of his crew has been bitten. Could Nathan actually be on the run from a werewhale? As the dark island fast approaches, Nathan’s adventure could end in a watery grave. It’s up to Morgan and her father’s old crewmate Ishmael to save Nathan’s life. But can she possibly change the mind of a man with the same stubborn streak as Captain Ahab? Ahab’s Daughter is the rollicking first novel in The Werewhale Saga, a series of fantasy adventures. If you like tenacious heroines, supernatural twists, and high seas suspense, then you’ll love Ron Vitale’s entertaining follow-up to Herman Melville’s literary classic.
Book Synopsis Whaling Captains' Children: Their Life at Sea by : Anita Rich
Download or read book Whaling Captains' Children: Their Life at Sea written by Anita Rich and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One Whaling Family by : Harold Williams
Download or read book One Whaling Family written by Harold Williams and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of the Williams family are told first hand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.
Download or read book Voyage of Ice written by Michele Torrey and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Nick ever wanted to be was a whaling captain, like his father before him. What could be more glorious than the life of a whaleman, battling mighty sperm whales and returning home rich as Midas? So when his older brother Dexter signs aboard the Sea Hawk, Nick won’t stand to be left behind. But life at sea is very different from what either Dexter or Nick expected. They are mercilessly overworked by a cruel and dangerous captain. The officers think nothing of beating the crewmen within an inch of their lives. And that’s only the beginning. When an awful turn of fate leaves them stranded in the harsh Arctic winter, they encounter the toughest battle of all—and this one is for their very survival.
Book Synopsis The Captain's Best Mate by : Mary Chipman Lawrence
Download or read book The Captain's Best Mate written by Mary Chipman Lawrence and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Book Synopsis The Captain's Daughters of Martha's Vineyard by : Eliot Eldridge Macy
Download or read book The Captain's Daughters of Martha's Vineyard written by Eliot Eldridge Macy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Symphony of Whales by : Steve Schuch
Download or read book A Symphony of Whales written by Steve Schuch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glashka can understand whale song--but with that mysterious power comes great responsibility. When she discovers thousands of whales trapped in a rapidly freezing inlet, she knows it is up to her to gather the people of her town to help them. Based on an actual event, this inspiring story follows Glashka and her people as they come to understand the importance of all life. Full-color illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Whaler's Daughter by : Jerry Mikorenda
Download or read book The Whaler's Daughter written by Jerry Mikorenda and published by Fitzroy Books. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, twelve-year-old Savannah Dawson lives with her widowed father on a whaling station in New South Wales, Australia. For generations, the Dawson family has carried on a very unusual way of life there. They use orcas to help them hunt whales. But Savannah believes the orcas hunted something else - her older brothers, who died mysteriously while fishing. Haunted by their deaths, Savannah wants to become a whaler to prove to her father that she's good enough to carry on the family legacy and avenge her slain brothers. Meeting an aboriginal boy, Figgie, changes that. Figgie helps Savannah to hone her whaling skills and teaches her about the Law of the Bay. When she is finally able to join the crew, Savannah learns just how dangerous the whole business is. A whale destroys her boat and Savannah sinks into the shark-infested waters. That's when the mysterious spirit orca Jungay returns to rescue her. Savannah starts questioning everything she thought she knew about the orcas, her family and herself. She vows to protect the creatures. That vow tests her mettle when the rapacious owner of a fishing fleet captures the orca pod and plans to slaughter them.
Book Synopsis Whaling Captains of Color by : Skip Finley
Download or read book Whaling Captains of Color written by Skip Finley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could learn navigation and reading and writing. Whaling presented a tantalizing alternative to mainland life. Working with archival records at whaling museums, in libraries, from private archives and interviews with people whose ancestors were whaling masters, Finley culls stories from the lives of over 50 black whaling captains to create a portrait of what life was like for these leaders of color on the high seas. Each time a ship spotted a whale, a group often including the captain would jump into a small boat, row to the whale, and attack it, at times with the captain delivering the killing blow. The first, second, or third mate and boat steerer could eventually have opportunities to move into increasingly responsible roles. Finley explains how this skills-based system propelled captains of color to the helm. The book concludes as facts and factions conspire to kill the industry, including wars, weather, bad management, poor judgment, disease, obsolescence, and a non-renewable natural resource. Ironically, the end of the Civil War allowed the African Americans who were captains to exit the difficult and dangerous occupation—and make room for the Cape Verdean who picked up the mantle, literally to the end of the industry.
Book Synopsis Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel by : Pam Houston
Download or read book Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absorbing, generous, ravishing book by a high priestess of you-have-to-read-this prose." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild Pam Houston, an "early master of the art of rendering fiercely independent, brilliant women in love with the wrong men" (Sarah Norris, Barnes & Noble Review), delivers a novel that whisks us from one breathtaking precipice to the next. Along the way, we unravel the story of Pam (a character not unlike the author), a fearless traveler aiming to leave her metaphorical baggage behind as she seeks a comfort zone in the air. With the help of a loyal cast of friends, body workers, and a new partner who helps her to be at home, she finally finds something like ground under her feet.
Download or read book Eye of the Whale written by Dick Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eye of the Whale focuses on one great whale in particularthe coastal-traveling California gray whale. Gray whales make the longest migration of any mammal - from the lagoons of Baja California to the feeding grounds of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia (nearly 6,000 miles). That the gray whale exists today is nothing short of miraculous. Whaling fleets twice massacred the species to near extinction - first during the nineteenth century and again during the early part of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Whale Hunt written by Nelson Cole Haley and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a voyage to the South Pacific in search of sperm whales. The Charles W. Morgan was the last surviving whaler from the fleet sailing out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was retired in 1921, after 80 years of active service. In this book, first published in 1948, Nelson Cole Haley recaptures the high drama of the whale hunt, the character of his shipmates, and their adventures ashore on the exotic islands of the South Pacific. “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 SEA
