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In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound enquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.
INCLUDES THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICK When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white wha
In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times -bestselling author of Startide Rising , a man-made black hole threatens the future of Earth. Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem--a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth'
Available in English for the first time--the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoul me Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabout ( Park Bench , Moby-Dick ). On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the w
Put simply, The Enchafèd Flood is an attempt to understand the nature of Romanticism through an examination of its treatment of a single theme, the sea. Auden focuses his Christian existentialist eye especially on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , though he draws widely from works as various as the Bibl
A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years From Homer's Odyssey , Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , and Cervantes's Don Quixote to Melville's Moby-Dick , Kerouac's On the Road , and Chimama
