Moby-Dick, or the Whale

xvi, 527 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers. With a portfolio of nineteenth century whaling prints selected and introduced by Willard Thorp. "Moby Dick is a story of Captain Ahab’s incessant pursuit of revenge against a whale that had took his leg but also about mans ability to let obsession take all and the easy at which we can become a unhealthy fanatic. However it is also an ode to community and co-operation for within this crusade the crew rely on one another to ensure safety, each individual a needed cog in a dangerous mission. But mostly, through the narrator Ishmael, we learn about the intricacies of whaling and the ordinarily plight of a professional sailor."