Moby-Dick - Wikipedia
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
Moby Dick (whale) - Wikipedia
Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that period, Mocha Dick.
Was Moby Dick a real whale? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the allegorical novel about Captain Ahab’s search to kill a great white whale, was based on real-life events. Born in 1819, author Herman Melville grew up during the peak of American dominance of the whaling industry, roughly the period between 1820 and the start of the Civil War.
The Real-Life Whale That Gave Moby Dick His Name
2017年10月18日 · Mocha Dick, named after the island of Mocha in Chile, near where he was first spotted, was “one of the largest, most powerful sperm whales of 19th-century lore,” according to the Chronicle Books...
Mocha Dick - Wikipedia
Mocha Dick (/ ˈmɒtʃə dɪk /; died 1838) was the nickname given to a rogue albino (or possibly leucistic) male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) that lived in the southeastern Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile.
The real Moby Dick: Mythic white whale captured on film in …
2021年12月1日 · Leo van Toly, who was on board the ship, recorded the sight initially made famous by Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” — the story of a sailor driven mad by his obsessive quest to enact...
The Great White Whale film captures climb to Australia's highest …
2024年8月16日 · Big Ben stretches 2,745 metres from sea level to its ice-capped peak on Heard Island, closer to Antarctica than the Australian continent. Leading the expedition was Warwick …
The White Whale Symbol in Moby-Dick - LitCharts
Moby Dick, or the White Whale, is not just the dominant symbol of the novel Moby Dick —he is also one of the most recognizable symbols in 19th-century American literature.
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (1851) - ZSR Library
2015年10月14日 · Everyone knows about Ishmael, Captain Ahab, and the Great White Whale. But how many readers have actually made it to the end of Melville’s epic? Moby Dick; or, The Whale is today a staple of Best American Novel lists and college syllabi.
Call Me Migaloo: The Story Behind Real-Life White Whales
2013年9月17日 · White whales, such as the recently spotted humpback nicknamed Migaloo, are rare and elusive creatures. How many are there and why are they white? “Call me Migaloo,” would start the memoir of...