Moby Dick
- ISBN-10
- 1403715777
- ISBN-13
- 9781403715777
- Series
- Moby Dick
- Category
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-15
- Authors
- Herman Melville, W. T. Robinson
Description
Call Me Ishmael Moby-Dick; or, The Whalechronicles the strange journey of an ordinary seaman named Ishmael who signs on for a whaling voyage in 1840s Massachusetts. A thoughtful but gloomy young man, Ishmael begins his odyssey in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a prosperous whaling town and crossing point to the island of Nantucket. Arriving on a dark Saturday night in December, he finds cheap lodging in a waterfront dive called The Spouter Inn. There he is forced to share a bed with a South Sea islander and “cannibal” named Queequeg, a fierce-looking harpooner covered with tattoos and carrying a tomahawk and a shrunken head. After some initial uncertainty, the two become close friends and decide to seek a berth together on a whaling ship. Before leaving for Nantucket, however, Ishmael decides to visit the local whaleman’s chapel, where he sees memorial plaques to lost sailors and hears a disturbing sermon about the prophet Jonah and the terrors of the whale.
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