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King lays bare the background to Moby-Dick by moving through the voyage of the Pequod, exploring topics in marine biology, oceanography, and the science of navigation as Ishmael raises them in the novel.
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- Title Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
- Author Richard J. King
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780226514963 / 022651496X
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Melville, Herman, American literature - 19th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019018442
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about nature," and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael's sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did far more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851.A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and… Read More
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