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Whaling ships -- Fiction

Fiction set aboard or focused on whaling vessels, depicting the unique culture, hierarchy, and perilous conditions of life on these ships.

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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale cover

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Melville, Herman

Herman Melville's epic whaling saga follows Ishmael's voyage aboard the doomed Pequod, where the monomaniacal Captain Ahab hunts the great white whale that destroyed his leg, dragging his crew into a fatal obsession with vengeance.

Whaling ships -- Fiction 31 min