"Whale and Porpoise Fisheries." NOAA Historic National Marine Fisheries Collection.
This site has the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's collection of historic marine fisheries photos relating to the whaling and porpoise fisheries.
"National Maritime Digital Library." National Maritime Digital Library.
This site has American Offshore Whaling Voyages Database, The database
includes all the American whaling voyages by vessel and master.
"New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America.
This site has information on New Bedford's whaling history and the impact the industry had on the city and its people.
"In Search of the Lost Whaling Fleets." NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries.
This page of NOAA's Marine Sanctuaries site provides history of Civil War sinking of whaling vessels in the arctic.
Books for Children
About Whaling
Carrick, Carol. Whaling Days. New York: Clarion
Books, 1993.
Day, Edward C. John Tabor's Ride. New York: Knopf
Books For Young Readers, 1989.
Draper, Charla L. Cooking on Nineteeth-Century
Whaling Ships (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes). Mankato:
Capstone Press, 1998.
Drummond, Allan, and Herman Melville. Moby
Dick. 1st American ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux,
1997.
Ell, Sarah. There She Blows: Sealing and Whaling Days in New
Zealand. Aukland: The Bush Press, 1984.
Grant, Gordon. Greasy Luck: A Whaling
Sketchbook. New York: Dover Publications, 2004.
Hough, Henry Beetle. Great Days of
Whaling (School Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
Jernegan, and Laura. A Whaling Captain's
Daughter: The Diary of Laura Jernegan, 1868-1871 (Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs). Mankato: Capstone Press, 2000.
Kassirer, Sue. Thar She Blows!: Whaling
in the 1860s. Norwalk, CT: Trudy Corp., 1997.
Krupinski, Loretta. Bluewater Journal:
The Voyage of the Sea Tiger. 1st ed. New York: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1995.
Mckissack, Fredrick, and Patricia C. Mckissack. Black
Hands, White Sails (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books). New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
Meadowcroft, Enid Lamonte. When Nantucket
Men Went Whaling. Champaign: Garrard Publishing Company, 1971.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Revenge of the
Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, Adapted for
Young People from In The Heart of the Sea. New York: Scholastic, 2003.
Sandler, Martin. Trapped In Ice!. Mexico: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.
Shapiro, Irwin. The Story of Yankee
Whaling, By the Editors of American Heritage. Narrative
By Irwin Shapiro, in Consultation With Edouard A. Stackpole.
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co.; Book Trade, 1959.
Stanley, Diane. The True Adventure
of Daniel Hall (Picture Puffins). New York City: Puffin, 2000.
About Whales
Nicklin, Flip, and Linda Nicklin. Face to Face with Whales. Washington, DC: National Geographic Children's Books, 2010.
Thomson, Sarah L. Amazing Whales! (I Can Read Book 2). New York: HarperTrophy, 2006.
Ward, Nathalie. Do Whales Ever...? Rockport, MA: Down
East Books, 1997.
Whaanga, Mere. The Legend of the Seven Whales of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti. New York: Scholastic, 1989.
Whittell, Giles. The Story of Three Whales. New York: Walker Books Ltd, 1989.
Simon, Seymour. Whales. New York: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2006.
Books for Adults
Allen, Everett S. Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall
of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet. Berkeley:
Parnassus Press (Il), 1983.
Ashley, Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler. New York: Algrove
Publishing, 2001.
Bockstoce, J. R. Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic.
First ed. New Bedford: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1977.
Bockstoce, John R. Whales, Ice, & Men. New York:
Seattle Univ. Of Washington Press, 1986.
Boeri, David. People of the Ice Whale: Eskimos, White Men,
and the Whale. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
1985.
Browne, John Ross. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise,: With Notes
of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1850.
Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World
After Sperm Whales. Boston: Public Domain Books, 2009.
Chatterton, E. Keble. Whalers and Whaling: The Story of the
Whaling Ships up to the Present Day. London: T. Fisher Unwin,
1925.
Cheever, Henry T. The Whale and His Captors; or, The whalemen's
adventures, and the whale's biography as gathered on the homeward
cruise of the "Commodore Preble." Ann Arbor, Michigan: University
Of Michigan Library, 2001.
Cherfas, Jeremy. The Hunting of the Whale: A Tragedy that
Must End. Boston: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.
Church, Albert Cook. Whale Ships and Whaling. New York:
Bonanaza, 1950.
Creighton, Margaret S. Rites and Passages: The Experience
of American Whaling, 1830-1870. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1995.
Currie, Stephen. Thar She Blows: American Whaling in the Nineteenth
Century. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2001.
Darby, Andrew. Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling. New
York : Da Capo Press, 2008.
Davis, William M. 1815-1891. Nimrod of the sea, or The American
whaleman. Toronto: Nabu Press, 2010.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century
Women at Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Druett, Joan. Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920.
New York: Upne, 2001.
Druett, Joan. In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage
of the Whaleship Sharon. New York: Algonquin Books, 2004.
Francis, Daniel. History of World Whaling. London: Penguin
Usa, 1990.
Heller, Peter. The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom
of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals. New York
City: Free Press, 2008.
Hoare, Philip. The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.
New York: Ecco, 2010.
Hohman, Elmo Paul. The American Whaleman;: A Study of Life
and Labor in the Whaling Industry,. London: Longmans, Green
And Co, 1928.
Hough, Henry Beetle, and Emma Mayhew Whiting. Whaling Wives
of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical
Society, 1965.
Josephson, Elizabeth A., Susan A. Lebo, Judith N. Lund, Randall
R. Reeves, and Tim D. Smith. Nineteenth-century Ship-based Catches
of Gray Whales, Eschrichtius robustus, in the Eastern North Pacific.:
An article from: Marine Fisheries Review. Washington D.C.: Superintendent
Of Documents, 2010.
Karttunen, Frances Ruley. The Other Islanders: People Who
Pulled Nantucket's Oars. New Bedford: Spinner Publications,
2005.
Lund, Judith N. Whaling masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing
From American Ports: A Compilation of Sources. New York: Ten
Pound Book Co, 2001.
Mandell, Daniel R. Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans
in Southern New England, 1780--1880 (The Johns Hopkins University
Studies in Historical and Political Science). Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Mawer, Granville Allen. Ahab's Trade. London: Allen &
Unwin, 2000.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, Or, the White Whale. Toronto:
Nabu Press, 2010.
Nichols, Peter. Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and
One Fateful Whaling Season. New York: Putnam Adult, 2009.
Norling, Lisa. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women
and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870. Chapel Hill, NC: The University
of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy
of the Whaleship Essex. Reissue ed. Boston: Penguin (Non-Classics),
2001.
Purrington, Philip F. Albert Cook Church: Photographs and
a Biographical Sketch. New Bedford, MA: The Trustees Of The
Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1969.
Schneider, Paul. The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod,
Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. New York: Holt Paperbacks,
2001.
Songini, Marc. The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle
Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster. New York:
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.
Spears, John Randolph. The Story of the New England Whalers.
London: Digital Text Publishing Company, 2009.
Stackpole, Edouard A. Sea Hunters. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1973.
Stackpole, Edouard A. The Charles W. Morgan : The Last Wooden
Whaleship. First Edition ed. New York: Meredith Press, 1967.
Starbuck, Alexander. History Of The American Whale Fishery:
From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876 (1878). New York:
Kessinger Publishing, Llc, 2010.
Sullivan, Robert. A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village
Did What No One Thought It Could. New York: Scribner, 2002.
Warrin, Donald. So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American
Whaling, 1765-1927. Dartmouth, Massachusetts: University Of
Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2010.
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2007.
Whipple, A. B. C. Yankee Whalers in the South Seas. New
York: Easton Press, 1987.
Williams, Harold. One Whaling Family. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin., 1964.