The Trying-out of Moby-Dick

Acushnet Ahab Ahab's ambergris American animal artist Beale and Bennett Beale's Natural History Bedford blubber boat bones Browne's Cachalot Captain cetological chapter Coffin crew deck described Duyckinck episode Etchings experience F. O. Matthiessen fact Father Mapple Fedallah fish documents flukes Greenland harpoon Hawthorne Herman Melville human humorous imagination Ishmael Jonah Lacépède later Leviathan literary look Mapple's Mardi Mast-Head Melville says Melville wrote Melville's metaphor mind Moby Dick Moby-Dick Mocha Dick Nantucket narrative never novel ocean Pacific paragraph passage Pequod Pierre probably Queequeg reader Redburn Right Whale round sail sailor satire scene Scoresby's seems seen sharks ship skeleton South Seas Sperm Whale spermaceti spirit spout squid Starbuck story strange Stubb suggested symbol tail theme things thou tion tragic Transcendentalism truth ville's whale fishery Whale's head whalemen whaleship whaling book whaling voyage White Whale White-Jacket William Scoresby words writing