About the Book: Moby Dick
Includes the True Story That Inspired Moby-dick When Ishmael Sets Sail on the
Whaling Ship Pequod One Cold Christmas Day, He Has No Idea of the Horrors
Awaiting Him Out on the Vast and Merciless Ocean. The Ships Strange Captain,
Ahab, Is in the Grip of an Obsession to Hunt Down the Famous White Whale, Moby
Dick, and Will Stop at Nothing on His Quest to Annihilate His Nemesis.
About the Author: Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful
author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor-writing in quick
succession Typee,