Recommended Resources
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Books
- Ashley, Clifford W. Yankee Whaler. New York: Dover Publications, 1991.
- Caldwell, D. K. “Behavior of the Sperm Whale.” In Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, edited by K. S. Norris. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.
- Callahan, Steven. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.
- Creighton, Margaret S. Dogwatch and liberty days: seafaring life in the nineteenth century. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1982.
- Creighton, Margaret S. Rites and passages: the experience of American Whaling, 1830–1870. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995
- Dening, Greg. Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Fine, Jil. The Whaleship Essex: the true story of Moby Dick New York : Children’s Press, c2003.
- Hanson, Neil. The custom of the sea. New York: Wiley, 1999.
- Murphy, Jim. Gone a-whaling: the lure of the sea and the hunt for the great whale. New York, NY: Clarion Books, c1998.
- Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. New York: Viking, 2000.
- Philbrick, Nathaniel. Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex. New York : Puffin Books, 2004.
- Robotti, Frances Diane. Whaling and old Salem; a chronicle of the sea. With an introd. by Henry Beetle Hough. New York, Fountainhead Publishers [1962]
- Simpson, A. W. Brian. Cannibalism and the Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy (Hardcover) by A.W. Brian Simpson. London: Hambledon Press, 1994.
Magazine articles
- Chadwick, Bruce. “The Sinking of the Essex.” Sail (January 1982), pp. 165–167. Please request at Abbot Public Library (mar@noblenet.org)
- Karp, Walter. “The Essex Disaster.” American Heritage (April/May, 1983), pp. 49–64. Please request at Abbot Public Library (mar@noblenet.org)
- Roderick, Kevin. “Thar They Blow!” Smithsonian (August, 2002) v.33, no. 5., pp. 31–32.
- Whitehead, Hal. “The Realm of the Elusive Sperm Whale.” National Geographic (November, 1995), pp 56–73.
Web Sites
Maritime sites
- Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary
- New England maritime areas to tour
- Sperm Whales
- Sperm Whale “voices” used to gauge whale sizes
- How Sperm Whales find their prey
- Oceanic Research Group
- Whaleship Essex
- Massachusetts Moments daily online historical remembrance
- Whaling
- Nantucket Historical Association
- PBS, Voyage of the Odyssey, Nantucket and whaling
- Wikipedia Whaling References
- International Whaling Commission
