Gone A-whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale

by Jim Murphy

Provides a factual look at whaling today while discussing the damage done to the world's whale population because of overzealous hunting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 23, 1998

About the author

An American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for his contribution in writing for teens. Jim lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, in a hundred-year-old house with his wife Alison Blank, a children’s TV producer and children’s book author and editor, his two talented musician sons, a regal mutt, an African water frog that will live forever, and a house vast collection of books..

Reviews

[Erin Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Supplemental whaling history while I read Moby Dick. Concise and short. Written for teens.

[Abe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best general summary of whaling I've read so far.

[Colette]

This book came in handy as a reference while reading Moby Dick.