📚 Whales

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The whales and their kin: natural history, the toll of whaling, songs recorded and decoded, and minds in the water.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject whales in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Worst Journey in the World	Apsley Cherry-Garrard	1922	67
Whale (DK Eyewitness Books)	Vassili Papastavrou	1993	16
Whale Hunting With Gun And Camera	Roy Chapman Andrews	1916	12
Whales	Seymour Simon	1989	11
Journey of a humpback whale	Caryn Jenner	2002	10
Whales	Gail Gibbons	1991	9
The Yankee whaler	Clifford W. Ashley	1926	7
The life and death of whales	Robert Burton	1973	7
Whales	John Bonnett Wexo	1984	7
I Am a Whale	Darlene R. Stille	2004	7
Amazing Whales!	Sarah L. Thomson	2005	6
Orcas	Claire Throp	2013	6
The whale war	David Day	1987	5
The story of three whales	Giles Whittell	1988	5
The great whales	Herbert S. Zim	1951	4
The blue whale	Donna K. Grosvenor	1977	4
Killer whales	Seymour Simon	1978	4
Whale nation	Heathcote Williams	1988	4
Whales	Joyce Milton	1989	4
Big Blue Whale	Nicola Davies	2001	4
The Whale Warriors	Peter Heller	2007	4
The whale	Matthews, L. Harrison	1968	3
The blue whale	George L. Small	1971	3
The twilight seas	Sally Carrighar	1975	3
Whaling season	Peter Lourie	2009	3
A Pod of Killer Whales	Vicki Leon	1988	2
Big blue whale	Nicola Davies	1997	2
Listening to whales	Alexandra Morton	2002	2
Leviathan, or, The whale	Philip Hoare	2009	2
Les enfants de la baleine blanche	Xavier Roy	1988	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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