Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
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Recommended by 8 notable people, including Barack Obama and Book Recommendations (43 Books)
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Fiction, Adventure, and Sailing.
MobyDick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, MobyDick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of MobyDick, and f...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Fiction, Adventure, and Sailing.
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