In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Persephone's Books.
New York: Basic Books, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 212 pp. First printing. This is a reading copy only. There is frequent underlining and marginalia in the text, and notes on the front endpapers. The book is slightly cocked. The binding is tight.

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19th century,adventure,australia and south pacific,classics,education and reference,general,history,literary,literature and fiction,modern (16th-21st centuries), In Search Of Moby Dick The Quest For The White Whale, Historian and adventurer Tim Severin has made a career of retracing epic voyages. He crossed the Atlantic in an open boat of stretched leather to test whether a sixth-century Irish monk could have made a fabled journey to North America, and later explored the Spice Islands of eastern Indonesia to see how the archipelago has "evolved" since 19th-century naturalist Alfred Wallace first surveyed it. The quest for the white whale, however, lands Severin in different territory: the shifting currents of fiction. Following tenuous evidence of pale sperm whales, Severin embarks for the South Pacific and the birthing grounds of Melville's masterpiece. On Nuku Hiva, the setting for Typee, he finds that the island harbors "many of the sources that Melville had raided to embellish his own, rather thin, experiences." Also thin is any evidence of a white whale, so he moves on to Pamilican, a dirt-poor little scrape where the locals subsist on jerry cans of imported fresh water and by "jumping" the sea's bounty. Their principal prey is the whale shark, the largest fish in the sea. Artists of the jump actually wrestle these plankton eaters underwater by hand, hooking the beasts with a massive grappling hook before coming up for the fight on board. One ancient hunter speaks vaguely of having jumped a white whale shark, but there are also rumors of giant white manta rays and other fantastic creatures. The centerpiece of the book is a visit to the little-known island of Lamarala, the.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Your Online Bookstore.
Among travel and adventure writers, Tim Severin occupies a unique place in that, as Jan Morris says, he "uniquely combines in himself the gifts of the adventurer, the historian, and the litterateur." Over the years, Severin has sailed in a leather boat across the Atlantic, traveled on horseback with the nomads of Mongolia, and sailed the Pacific on a bamboo raft in an effort to re-create the storied voyages and travels of Brendan, Jason, Ulysses, and Genghis Khan. He then spun these rich adventures into literary gold, writing such classics as The Brendan Voyage. Now Severin applies his boundless skills to a quintessentially American subject—Moby Dick—in an attempt to retrace the origins of Herman Melville's legendary literary creation.In In Search of Moby Dick Severin sets about determining the likelihood of the existence of one of our most iconic modern myths—the Great White Whale. To do so he travels to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Archipelago where the twenty-one-year-old Melville deserted his whaling ship in 1842 and began to cobble together the legends, tall tales, sea lore, and firsthand accounts garnered from the whalers he encountered, filtering all this material through his own fertile imagination to create his monumental novel. It is here that Severin begins to perceive the lush weave of fact and fiction, actual experience and extravagant yarn, that is Moby Dick, and the complex richness of Melville's tapestry becomes even clearer as Severin sails on throughout the South Pacific., Hardcover, Ausgabe: New Ed, Label: Basic Books, Basic Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2000-04-03, Studio: Basic Books, Verkaufsrang: 3146257.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Basic Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Gently used may contain ex-library markings, possibly has some light highlighting, textual notations, and or underlining. Text is still easily readable.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wonder Book.
Basic Books. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book.