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Fighting the Whales

by R. M. Ballantyne

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Read by Lee Elliott · 2 h 9 min · 10 parts

  1. In Trouble

    13:30

  2. At Sea

    14:24

  3. Our First Battle

    13:13

  4. Blubber & Oil

    12:39

  5. A Storm

    9:00

  6. The Whale--Fighting Bulls

    11:45

  7. Tom's Wisdom

    21:06

  8. Death on the Sea

    11:10

  9. News From Home

    17:03

  10. Return Home

    5:16

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Bob Ledbury looks back on nearly forty years of whaling, beginning with the hardship that drove him to seek work at sea. As a boy of nearly fifteen in an English seaport, he has lost his job and exhausted the money needed to support his mother. A friendly sailor offers him a berth on a ship bound for the South Seas, setting up a children's adventure rooted in family responsibility and the demands of seafaring life.

R. M. Ballantyne combines the sailor's recollections with explanations of whales and the work of hunting them. The narrative pauses to distinguish whales from fish, discuss their breathing and describe the care a mother whale gives her calf. Alongside boats, harpoons and the handling of whale oil, readers encounter advice about controlling anger and admitting mistakes. The book offers a view of maritime labour through an older style of adventure writing and natural history.

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R. M. Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish author of adventure fiction for the young. His years as a clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada gave him a taste for wild places, and he went on to write more than a hundred spirited tales of travel and survival.

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Reading time
About 100 minutes
Pages
57
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Lee Elliott