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  • The Whale and His Captors; or, The Whaleman's Adventures

    by Henry T. Cheever, Mark Bousquet ...
    The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s. Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America’s classic novels. After exhausting ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Fishing Adventures on the Newfoundland Banks 1860

    by W V Wells ...
    A good description of a trip on the Rhody Carter out of Marblehead Massachusetts to the Grand Banks in search of Cod during the mid nineteenth century. ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

    First-Person Accounts

    by Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson ...
    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the SeaIn 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Omoo

    A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

    by Herman Melville ...
    Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Galapagos Landscapes: Scenic Photographs from Ecuador’s Galapagos Archipelago, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, with words of Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, and HMS Beagle Captain Robert FitzR

    Galapagos Islands Nature, #2

    by Lynn Michelsohn ...
    Series Book 2 - Galapagos Islands Nature
    Enter the unique world of the Galapagos Islands!Glimpse these exotic islands through the eyes of a modern-day nature photographer and in brief selections from the writings of world-famous early visitors.Nearly 200 years ago, British naturalist Charles Darwin, American novelist Herman Melville, and HMS Beagle Captain Robert FitzRoy of the Royal Navy all traveled to Ecuador's famous archipelago, the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty Years Before the Mast

    by Charles Erskine ...
    In 1838 the able-bodied seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world.From the Pacific to Antarctic to Atlantic, Erskine would travel with this expedition to the furthest corners of the Earth.He would go on to travel to some of the most unexplored regions, meeting men and women who had never seen westerners ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seamonster, Illustrated

    by Charles Nordhoff ...
    Written in 1860, this pieces describes the sightings of a number of sea serpents, including the Cape Ann Sea Serpent. The article also describes encounters with the Giant Cuttle Fish. ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Cape Cod

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Series series Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
    This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, Thoreau finds "another world" ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • A Memory of the Southern Seas

    by Louis Becke ...
    AQUARIUM MENTAL I. L’eau sage s’est enclose en des cloisons de verre D’où le monde lui soit plus vague et plus lointain; Elle est tiède, et nul vent glacial ne l’aère; Rien d’autre ne se mire en ces miroirs sans tain Où, seule, elle se fait l’effet d’être plus vaste Et de se prolonger soi-même à l’infini! D’être recluse, elle s’épure, devient chaste, Et son sort à celui du verre s’est uni, Pour n ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Owen Chase, George Pollard Jr., Thomas Chappel ...
    The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler Classics edition reproduces First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex by an enormous whale and the fates that befell her twenty-man crew. Those who survived endured months of stormy seas in small boats, insufferable heat, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Essex and the Whale

    Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick

    Edited by R. D. Madison ...
    This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Idler

    by Rusty Watson ...
    Jeremiah Watts, in a drunken stupor, signs a seaman certificate and suddenly finds himself aboard the Ann Alexander, a rickety whaling ship. While aboard this ship, he begins a transformation as he gains maturity and begins to resolve his authority figure issues. This story is drawn from his journal and love letters covering the years he spent aboard the Ann Alexander. ... Read more

    $5.20 CAD