Moby Dick
Subtitle: or, The whale.
By: Introd. by Leon Howard.
Contributors: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Modern Library college editions
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
Subjects: Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Whaling -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge.
Notes: "Bibliographical note": p. xvii.