# Fighting the Whales

Author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

Genre: Children's Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21202

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fighting+the+Whales+Ballantyne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There are few things in this world that have filled me with so much astonishment as the fact that man can kill a whale! That a fish, more than sixty feet long, and thirty feet round the body; with the bulk of three hundred fat oxen rolled into one; with the strength of many hundreds of horses; able to swim at a rate that would carry it right round the world in twenty-three days; that can smash a boat to atoms with one slap of its tail, and stave in the planks of a ship with one blow of its thick skull;--that such a monster can be caught and killed by man, is most wonderful to hear of, but I can tell from experience that it is much more wonderful to see.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fighting-the-whales-21202/chapters/10/index.md)