Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the …

Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that period, Mocha Dick.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the allegorical novel about Captain Ahab’s search to kill a great white whale, was based on real-life events. Born in 1819, author Herman Melville grew up during the …

2021年12月1日 · Leo van Toly, who was on board the ship, recorded the sight initially made famous by Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” — the story of a sailor driven mad by his …

2017年10月18日 · Mocha Dick, named after the island of Mocha in Chile, near where he was first spotted, was “one of the largest, most powerful sperm whales of 19th-century lore,” according …

For example, Herman Melville's Moby Dick features a "great white whale" as the main antagonist for Ahab. The whale is an albino sperm whale, considered by Melville to be the largest type of …

2024年8月16日 · Big Ben stretches 2,745 metres from sea level to its ice-capped peak on Heard Island, closer to Antarctica than the Australian continent. Leading the expedition was Warwick …