Call me Ahab
Jeremy Harding: Moby-Dick, 31 October 2002
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.
Northwestern, 573 pp., £14.95, September 2001,0 8101 1911 0 Show More
by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.
Northwestern, 573 pp., £14.95, September 2001,
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in
by C.L.R. James.
New England, 245 pp., £17.95, July 2001,9781584650942 Show More
by C.L.R. James.
New England, 245 pp., £17.95, July 2001,
Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival
by Clare Spark.
Kent State, 744 pp., £46.50, May 2001,0 87338 674 4 Show More
by Clare Spark.
Kent State, 744 pp., £46.50, May 2001,
Lucchesi and the Whale
by Frank Lentricchia.
Duke, 104 pp., £14.50, February 2001,9780822326540 Show More
by Frank Lentricchia.
Duke, 104 pp., £14.50, February 2001,
“... The noises of the sperm whale are unlike the lyric hootings and musings of the humpback, whose ‘songs’ won him a place in the LP charts in the 1970s. Recordings of the humpback were no doubt helped by the fact that ‘true whales’ – those species, to which he belongs, equipped with strips of whalebone and long pelmets of baleen in their mouths for sieving their food – seldom dive more than a few hundred metres ... ”
