Moby-Dick, or, The whale
By: Herman Melville ; presented by Jan Needle ; illustrated by Patrick Benson
Contributors: Needle, Jan; Benson, Patrick
Series: Walker illustrated classics; Walker illustrated classics
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781406317442
Subjects: Ship captains; Captain Ahab (Fictitious character); Whaling; Whaling ships; Whales; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Sea stories
Other titles: Whale
Description: An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick. Segments of the original text are supported by commentaries from Jan Needle. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Notes: Originally published: 2006.