The Whaling Odyssey: A 15-Book Collection
Fifteen Classic Tales of Arctic Peril, Pacific Voyages, and Life in the Whale FisheryBy Roger Starbuck, Ben Ames Williams, Thomas H. Jenkins, Lewis Holmes, Walter Noble Burns, William Henry Giles Kingston, R. M. Ballantyne, Harry Castlemon, George Fox Tucker, A. Hyatt Verrill, David Moore Lindsay, John Laing
Length75h 42m
About this audiobook
The Whaling Odyssey gathers fifteen maritime narratives into a capacious portrait of the sea as workplace, wilderness, imperial corridor, and moral testing ground. Ranging from boy's adventure and travel romance to historical narrative and documentary-inflected sea tale, the collection traces the dangers, disciplines, and imaginative allure of whaling. Storm-bound voyages, encounters with cetaceans, shipboard hierarchies, and distant coasts give the volume both narrative velocity and historical resonance, while its varied prose registers reveal the changing popular literature of the nautical world. Its contributors—Roger Starbuck, Ben Ames Williams, Thomas H. Jenkins, Lewis Holmes, Walter Noble Burns, William Henry Giles Kingston, R. M. Ballantyne, Harry Castlemon, George Fox Tucker, A. Hyatt Verrill, David Moore Lindsay, and John Laing—represent overlapping traditions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century adventure writing, juvenile fiction, travel literature, and historical storytelling. Collectively, these voices situate whaling within a broader culture of seafaring expansion and popular empire, yet also preserve the practical knowledge and uncertainty that make maritime life compelling. Recommended for students of maritime literature, environmental history, and popular fiction, this volume offers an unusually broad comparative archive. Readers can follow how different narrative modes transform the same oceanic world into adventure, labor history, ethical drama, and cultural memory.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length75 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A voyage to Spitzbergen
2A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN; CONTAINING AN Account of that Country, OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE NORTH; OF THE SHETLAND ISLES; AND OF THE WHALE FISHERY.
3ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. (pt. 1)
4ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. (pt. 2)
5APPENDIX.
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6Extracts from Reviews in Recommendation of this Work.
7A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora
8CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION
9CHAPTER IV—NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING
10CHAPTER VI—SOMETHING ABOUT THE GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION
11CHAPTER IX—A GREENLAND SETTLEMENT
12CHAPTER XII—CAPE YORK TO CAREY ISLANDS
13CHAPTER XV—FLOE EDGE FISHING
14APPENDIX
15The Arctic Whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean
16PREFACE.
17CHAPTER III.
18CHAPTER VI.
19CHAPTER VIII.
20CHAPTER XI.
21A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHALING, WITH SOME OF ITS INTERESTING DETAILS.
22CHAPTER VI.
23Footnote
24Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale
25Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale
26Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
27A Year with a Whaler
28CHAPTER I
29CHAPTER VI
30CHAPTER X
31CHAPTER XIV
32CHAPTER XIX
33The Boy Whaleman
34CHAPTER I PREPARING FOR THE VOYAGE
35CHAPTER II AT SEA
36CHAPTER III ABOUT WHALES
37CHAPTER IV THE FIRST CHASE
38CHAPTER V CAPTURING AND CUTTING-IN
39CHAPTER VI TRYING-OUT AND ROUNDING THE HORN.
40CHAPTER VII RECRUITING AND SHORE LEAVE
41CHAPTER VIII THE PRIZE WHALE AND THE RESCUED BOAT
42CHAPTER IX HONOLULU AND OFF TO THE ARCTIC
43CHAPTER X EXPERIENCES IN THE ARCTIC
44CHAPTER XI HONOLULU AGAIN, AND SEA TALES
45CHAPTER XII THE COAST OF JAPAN AND THE CAROLINES
46CHAPTER XIII WHOSE WHALE WAS IT?
47CHAPTER XIV PITCAIRN ISLAND
48CHAPTER XV THE VISIT TO PITCAIRN
49CHAPTER XVI HOMEWARD BOUND
50CHAPTER XVII SETTLING THE VOYAGE
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