For the past two decades, you longed to cut off the hand that America extends to the most impoverished, oppressed, desperate, ...

With his long silver locks and rugged beard, Paul Watson resembles a modern-day Captain Ahab, the fictional whaler ... of a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Whale Wars, which followed his Sea Shepherd ...

Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims in an ocean chock-full of dangers such as pollution, shipping, oil ...

“My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?” Captain Pollard asked in utter shock. “We have been stove by a whale,” came the bitter reply. Adrift in the small boats, her crew were as far as ...

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", published in 1851 tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his maniacal pursuit of the ever-elusive white whale, Moby Dick. The story is told primarily through the thoughts of ...

In 1841 young Ishmael signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the strict, one-legged Capt. Ahab. Ishmael soon finds out that Ahab is searching for the legendary white whale ...

delves into Melville’s whale tale with talks ... Before you set sail, brush up on your knowledge of Captain Ahab, Queequeg, and the titular big fella himself with these five riffs on the ...

Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims in an ocean chock-full of dangers such as pollution, shipping, oil ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the ... the processing of the whale's flesh--chapters which in ...