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• Whalers (Persons) -- Fiction
• Whalers (Persons) -- Juvenile fiction
• Whalers (Persons) -- United States

• Whale men
• Whalemen
• Whaling men

• The American Whaleman: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), by Elmo Paul Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whaling Wives (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953), by Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)
• The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Red Eric, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• A Year With a Whaler (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1913), by Walter Noble Burns
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dead Fish and Fat Cats: A No-Nonsense Journey Through Our Dysfunctional Fishing Industry (Vancouver: Granville Island Pub., c2002), by Eric Wickham (PDF with commentary at viacorp.com)

• The Fishermen (second revised and enlarged edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Hans Kirk, ed. by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c1990), by Timothy Charles Lloyd and Patrick B. Mullen (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• The Old Man and the Sea (as published in full in Life Magazine, September 1, 1952), by Ernest Hemingway, illust. by Noel Sickles (page images at Google)
• Blue Water: A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Frederick William Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Iceland Fisherman, by Pierre Loti, trans. by Jules Cambon (Gutenberg text)
• Capitaines Courageux: Une Histoire du Banc de Terre-Neuve (French translation of "Captains Courageous"; Paris: Hachette, 1903), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker, illust. by Auguste-François-Marie Gorguet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Kalavartion Seikkailut (Tales of the Fish Patrol in Finnish; Helsinki: Minerva, 1921), by Jack London, trans. by Aito Kare (Gutenberg text)
• Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta (Finnish translation of "Captains Courageous"; Porvoo: WSOY, 1915), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Väinö Jaakkola (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Fish Patrol (London: W. Heinemann, 1914), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Fish Patrol (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Jack London, illust. by George Varian (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Pearl (published in magazine form in 1945, and book form in 1947), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pearl Lagoon (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1924), by Charles Nordhoff, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Pearl Fishers (New York: J. Lane Co., 1915), by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• Rosa (New York : A.A. Knopf, 1926), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Folk-Lore des Pêcheurs (in French; Paris: J. Maissoneuve, 1901), by Paul Sébillot
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences (c2013), ed. by Marshall Alexander Clark and Sally K. May
  • multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by David L. Howell (HTML at UC Press)

• The Heir of Kilfinnan: A Tale of the Shore and Ocean, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Here's Juggins (Boston and New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1936), by Amy Wentworth Stone, illust. by Hildegard Woodward (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by A. L. Karras, contrib. by Olaf Hanson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by A. L. Karras, contrib. by Olaf Hanson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Here's Juggins (Boston and New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1936), by Amy Wentworth Stone, illust. by Hildegard Woodward (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2003), by Michael N. Kalafatas (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2003), by Michael N. Kalafatas (page images and PDF at Brandeis)