Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
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Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about nature," and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael's sea yarn is in conversation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022651496X
ISBN13:9780226514963
Release Date:November 2019
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.72 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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