The Sea-wolf
When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself sailing to Japan aboard the Ghost, he has to face weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen, until he decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: sealers (persons), sealing ships, ship captains, arctic regions, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, seafaring life, sea stories [X], shipwrecks [X], london, jack, american literature, fiction, allegories, adventure stories, seafaring life fiction, sea stories [X], adventure fiction
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 [X], ahab, captain (fictitious character), ahab, captain (fictional character), mental illness, whaling ships, ship captains, mentally ill, shipwrecks [X], fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, epic literature, sea stories [X], allegories, electronic books