Ahab's Rolling Sea

In this “invigorating study,” a maritime historian delves into the environmental and scientific concerns beneath the surface of Melville’s epic tale ( Nature ). One of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is also a landmark of nature writing. In conversation with the works of Emerson and Thoreau, this epic of the sea draws on Melville’s own travels to the Pacific. The author spent more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851