1851Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Ishmael signs aboard the whaler Pequod out of Nantucket and is swept into Captain Ahab's monomaniac hunt for the white whale that took his leg, a voyage across the world's oceans toward annihilation. Melville roots the epic in the real whaling world of New England: the port of New Bedford where Ishmael meets Queequeg, the island of Nantucket where the Pequod sails, and the far Pacific grounds where the White Whale at last is found.
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