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Ahab's Rolling Sea
A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
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Narrateur(s):
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David Colacci
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Auteur(s):
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Richard J. King
À propos de cet audio
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.
A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction.
King then climbs to the crow's nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851 - at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab's and Ishmael's worldviews to how we see the ocean today: An expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville's narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism.
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- 2025-02-10
Deep dive into maritime history of Melville's time, fascinating!
This is a wonderful deep dive into the maritime history of Melville's day, and has helped me get a deeper understanding of Moby Dick. King is very good at introducing us to all the different animals and sea creatures Melville mentions in his novels (not just Moby Dick), and teaches us what Melville got right, and what new discoveries we have learned since.
My only complaint is that because this is an audiobook, there's no way to see the "plates" that the narrator will refer to (as in: he will say "see plate 10" after a paragraph, where in the hardback book there will be some kind of photo or diagram) but obviously this is not the fault of the author or narrator. It would have been nice for the publisher to either include these referenced "plate" figures as a PDF similar to how other audiobooks do this, or don't mention them at all (there's nothing for us to actually refer to!).
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