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Bored and lonely, the son of a millionaire is on an ocean voyage.

An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "Captains Courageous," the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of a millionaire who is rescued by New England fishermen after being swept overboard from an ocean liner and put to work on their boat.

Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi.

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

A stranger with a bamboo pole magically catches fish and hands them out to villagers, saying "One person, one fish, " but the king will not be content until he receives a whole basket of fish.

When he accidentally discovers a beautiful hidden valley inhabited by contented people, a fisherman is asked to return but only if he tells no one where he's been.

A retelling of the traditional tale in which five silly fishermen, unable to count properly, are convinced that one of their group has drowned.

Indigo wants to be a musician, not a fisherman like his father, and with the aid of an enormous whale he finally gets his wish.

Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.

After the sea claims the life of his mother, Hugh, a fisherman, vows revenge on the waters that betrayed him, but little does he know that, with a simple gesture, he will cause a chain of events that could alter the world as he knows it.

Takes readers aboard the freezing, damp conditions of an Alaskan Crab boat, one of the deadliest workplaces in the world.

While working on a fishing boat, Carlos rescues a woman who claims her ship was capsized by a monster.

Provides an up-close, out-of-this-world look at commercial fishermen, including daily tasks, unique challenges, and the special gear and tools used.

An introduction to fishers, how and where they work, and the tools they use, with photographs and information that show how the job has changed over the years, and including a look at a day in the life of a fisher in the 1800s and in the twenty-first century.

Records the author's journeys on fishing boats in waters of the world from the North Sea to the North Atlantic and describes the various kinds of fishing boats and the daily lives of the people who live on them.