The beast of Cretacea
By: Todd Strasser
Contributors: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780763669010
Subjects: Ship captains; Teenage boys; Marine animals; Revenge; Fiction; Science fiction; Sea stories; Life on other planets
Description: Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.