Moby Dick
Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340
subjects: adventure, classics, whales, ahab, captain (fictitious character), whaling ships, ship captains, whaling, high interest /low vocabulary books, ahab, captain (fictional character), sea stories, mentally ill, audiobooks, adventure fiction, graphic novels, revenge, de ballenas - ficcion, reading materials, comic books, strips, etc, ocean, spanish language, sea stories, donation, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, psychological fiction, psychological fiction, adventure stories [X]
Moby Dick, Or, The Whale
An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: whales, whaling, sea stories, ahab, captain (fictitious character), ahab, captain (fictional character), mental illness, whaling ships, ship captains, mentally ill, shipwrecks, fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], epic literature, sea stories, allegories, electronic books
Typee
A semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the Valley of the Typees on the island of Nuku Hiva, told through the character of Tommo, a sailor who jumps ship and lives for months among the valley's happy people.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: indigenous peoples, sailors, marquesas islands (french polynesia), captivity, prisoners, sea stories, adventure stories [X]
Moby Dick
The Pequod, commanded by peg-legged Captain Ahab, sets out on a whaling voyage.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: whaling, sea stories, whales, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], epic literature, sea stories, allegories, ahab, captain (fictitious character)