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There is a whale in the sea, as white as a ghost, and it haunts me. Sometimes, when I'm afloat in sleep, like a drowned sailor, he swims towards me--a nightmare all in white, jaws gaping, and I wake up screaming and salt-water wet with sweat. Somewhere out there in the bottomless oceans lives Moby Dick, a great white winter of a whale, and I shiver still at the thought of him. In vivid and compelling language, the award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean retells Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels. McCaughrean's text is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships and the sea and of the white monster, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. Children and young adults will be thrilled and captivated by this wonderful adventure tale.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192781536
eBay Product ID (ePID)91862877
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoby Dick: Or, the White Whale
IllustratorVictor Ambrus
AuthorHerman Melville
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
GenreChildren & Young Adults
Number of Pages104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height280mm
Item Width200mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorHerman Melville
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom