Herman Melville and Whaling

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Herman Melville and Whaling

1 Comment 14 April 2011

In the days of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, to go whaling was a suitable profession, a chance at adventure, even a source of literary inspiration. For Ishmael, the main character in Moby Dick, whaling was a indeed a noble and necessary profession. And the great leviathan, or the whale, was pursued closely and hunted carefully. Now, the [...]

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