A work originally titled The Whale in 1851 by Herman Melville, a highly symbolic story about a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab, which begins “Call me Ishmael.”
a novel by Herman Melville about a man called Captain Ahab who risks his life and the lives of the other people on his ship by hunting a large, powerful white whale called Moby-Dick. The book is famous of containing a lot of information about hunting whales and for being very long. Many people consider it to be one of the greatest American novels (1851)