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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”

by Richard J. King

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, w

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

Nov 11, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

464

ISBN

9780226514963