Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick

by Richard J. King

Book Overview

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"