Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship

Websites

• "New Bedford Free Public Library- Whaling Archives Project." City of New Bedford Official Website.
  This is a searchable index of the men and ships on whaling voyages from New Bedford Custom District from 1807-1925.
• "A taxonomy of world whaling: operations, eras, and sources." Northeast Fisheries Science Center.
  This is a paper that describes the eras of whaling history, and how whaling was conducted during that time period.
• "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.
• "On the Water - Fishing for a Living, 1840-1920: Commercial Fishers -Whaling." National Museum of American History.
  This is the whaling section of a Smithsonian on-line exhibit, "On the Water - Fishing for a Living, 1840 - 1920".
• "Women in Maritime History, San Francisco Maritime Historical National Park." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America.
  This site has information about women in maritime history, and mentions Laura Jernegan.
• "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.
• Foster, Mark. Whale Port: Whale Port. 1 ed. Austin: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2007.
• Frederick, Heather Vogel. The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed (Aladdin Historical Fiction). Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2004.
• Gourley, Catherine. Hunting Neptune's Giants. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995.
• 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.
• Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2006.
• Murphy, Jim. Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale. New York: Clarion Books, 2004.
• Osborne, Alice Cushing;, and Nancy Cabot Gardiner. Father's Gone A Whaling. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
• Petrillo, Valerie. Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages. New York: Independent Pub Group, 2003.
• 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.
• Papastravrou, Vassilli. Whale (DK Eyewitness Books). New York: DK CHILDREN, 2004.
• 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.