|
MOBY DICK
Please use our A-Z INDEX to navigate this site or return HOME
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the classic scenes that almost every artist wants to paint.
The idea for Moby Dick came to Herman Melville after he spent time on a commercial whaler, where stories abounded of the sinking of the Essex in 1821 and Mocha Dick, a giant sperm whale that sank around 20 ships, before being harpooned in 1838.
Herman realised how fixated the sailors were, and he also became with the thought that there was a whale that nobody could catch, that represented a real risk to the whalers hunting whales, in that it was more sport than commercial operations.
Without any doubt this is one of the greatest novels coming out of America at this time and way off the beaten track, which is why it is so interesting, reflecting the state of whaling and the economic importance in the developing the nation - giving the general public a taste of something that most people never think about.
Many films and graphic novel adaptations have been inspired by the writings of Herman Melville, especially Moby Dick, with good cause.
A production begun in 2020 is a graphic novel about a giant humpback whale called Kulo Luna. Kulo Luna sinks a modern whaling boat, much as depicted in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, except that is this day and age whales have explosive harpoons to contend with, sonar and rusty steel hulls.
Portrait
of Herman Melville, one of the all time American greats. As with so many
creative talents, he was not appreciated during his lifetime.
READ THE BOOK ONLINE FREE CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. CHAPTER 39. First Night Watch. CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah. CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre. CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View. CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View. CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram. CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up. CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides. CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton. CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale. CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish? CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter. CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin. CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch. CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks. CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning. CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line. CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight. CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
Ambergris - A very expensive waxy substance found in sperm whale intestines Ann Alexander - A whaling ship rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1851 Arrowhead - One of Herman Melville's homes, now a monument to the writer Benito Cereno - Spanish slave ship revolt Berkshire Historical Society - Based at Arrowhead Bildad - Retired captain and half owner of the Pequod Billy Budd - A Royal Navy sailor is wrongly accused of mutiny and court martialled Blubber - The skin of a whale typically reduced to oil Bulkington - A sailor in the Spounter Inn and Pequod crew member Captain Ahab - The obsessive commander of the Pequod Captain Boomer - Commands the Samuel Enderby of London Captain Gardiner - Card Game - Moby Dick adaptation using cards, dice and tokens Carpenter - A member of the Pequod's crew Cleaner Ocean Foundation - a not for profit conservation & research organisation Chapel - New Bedford CNN - 200 years old yet Moby Dick is very 2019 by David Shaerf Daggoo - African harpooneer Daily Mail Online - October 2013, Two films shipwrecked crew cannibals, Essex 1820 Dollars - Spanish pieces of eight Doubloons - Originally a gold coin from Spain, but also from Portugal and Equador Dough Boy - The Pequod's ship's steward Elijah - Dockside preacher Elizabeth Shaw - Wife of Herman Melville from August 1847 English Heritage - 25 Craven St, Charing Cross, London, WC2N 5NT, Westminster City Essex - 1821 real life sinking of a whaling ship Fedallah - Harpooneer and guru Films - 1926 The Sea Beast, silent movie Warner Bros, John Barrymore - 1930 Moby Dick, Vitaphone & Warner Brothers movie, John Barrymore - 1956 Moby Dick, Warner Brothers & MGM's Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab - 2010 Moby Dick Asylum movie production, monster sinks a modern battleship - 2015In the Heart of the Sea, sinking of the Essex, starring Chris Hemsworth Flask- Third mate on the Pequod, nicknamed 'King Post' Gaff - A large hook on a stick for landing whales Guardian, The - 6 reasons why Moby Dick is a novel of our times Guardian, The - Top 100 novels Jan 2014: Moby Dick (17) Harpoons - Hand held and explosive weapons for whaling Independent, The - Book reviews: In Northern Waters by Ian McGuire 2016 International Whaling Commission - IWC Ishmael - Narrator of Moby Dick: "Call me Ishmael" Israel Potter - Fifty Years of Exile Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Published account of Mocha Dick Kraken - The, deep sea monsters thought to be real by sailors Kulo Luna - An ocean awareness campaign in graphic novel form Lansingburgh Historical Society - Guardians of Melville's New York home Lansingburgh, Troy - Herman Melville's New York home, Renssalaer County Leviathan - An exceptionally large whale Longboats - The boats used by whalers to chase and harpoon whales Manxman - Pequod's oldest crew member from the Isle of Man Mardi - And a voyage thither, Pacific Ocean sailing adventures (fiction) Migaloo - Australian white humpback whale Moby Dick - A fictional bull sperm whale based on Mocha Dick - Free to Read Online Moby-Dick - Graphic novels, easy read classic comics Moby Dick - Illustrated children's book by Moppet Kinderguides Mocha Dick - A real life old bull sperm whale, The White Whale of the Pacific Mystic Seaport - A Connecticut museum about the history of sailing and the location Nantucket, Massachusetts - Whaling county Nathaniel Hawthorne - Writer and friend of Herman Melville New Bedford, Massachusetts - The Whaling Museum New York Times - Celebrating 200 years of Herman Melville obituary New Zealand Tom - A sperm whale also known as NZ Jack Omoo - Herman Melville's Adventures in the South Seas Owen Chase - First Mate's account (1821) of the Essex sinking 1820 Paradise of Batchelors and the Tartarus of Maids - PBS - The life of Herman Melville, American Public Broadcasting Service Peleg - Captain (retired) half owner of the Pequod Pequod, The - Captain Ahab's ship Pierre Glendinning - The Ambiguities Pip - The cabin boy Poetry Foundation - Herman Melville, Poet Pulpit - Queequeg - Harponeer aboard the Pequod Quohog - Large edible chowder clam Redburn - His first voyage from New York to Liverpool, England Rorqual - Baleen whales with pleated throats that expand for catching krill and fish Sermon - Father Mapple Sperm Oil - A superior lubricant and illuminant Sperm Whales - Mocha Dick, Timor Tom Spermaceti - A waxy substance found in sperm whale heads Spouter Inn - A public house in New Bedford Starbuck - First Mate on the Pequod Stubb - Pequod's 2nd mate Tashtego - Harpooneer aboard the Pequod Television Mini Series - 1998 American Zoetrope & Nine Network Australia, Patrick Stewart - 2011 TV mini-series by Tele München Gruppe, William Hurt The Confidence Man - Mississippi river steamboat trip to New Orleans Thomas Beale - Sketch of a South Sea Whaling Voyage 1839 Thomas Nickerson - Cabin boy on the Essex in 1820 Timor Tim - A famous whale also known as Timor Tom and Timor Jack Typee - A peep at Polynesian life among the cannibals where humans are food Vava’u - Kingdom of Tonga, whale watching area Vitaphone - A film company involved in an early production of Moby Dick Whalers - Whaling sailors and ships Whales - Blue, Gray, Minke, Killer, Humpback, Right, Sperm Whaling History - Online data resource: Mystic Seaport & New Bedford Museum White Jacket - USS Neversink Naval Frigate man of war 1843 White whale of the Pacific Ocean - Mocha Dick William B Whitecar - Four Years Aboard the Whaleship 1864 Yankees -
LINKS & REFERENCE
http://melville.dk/
Please use our A-Z INDEX to navigate this site
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This website is Copyright © 2020 Jameson Hunter Ltd
|
