Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville ...

November 14, 1851, marked the first day that the American public could purchase Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the latest novel by the modestly successful author Herman Melville, for $1.50 (around $60 ...

The Essex began its final journey in August 1819, departing its home island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, for the sperm-whale-rich Pacific Ocean.The 238-ton ship, built in 1799, was around 100 tons ...

The 7-and-a-half-foot statue of Melville showcases him calmly standing in a temple of ribs, with swirls of the ocean depicted ...

LISTEN: Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick' will be celebrated at NKU with art, readings and more "This is one way she's early in the ecological understanding of the whale as we've come to appreciate it ...

Rockwell Kent, illustrator, and Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the Whale (1937). Photo: courtesy Peabody Essex Museum. “Moby Dick is this rich tapestry of ideas and concepts about humanity’s ...

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in ...

The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville's masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick Mike Silverman Wednesday 26 February 2025 12:05 GMT ...

Herman Melville's Great American Novel, 'Moby-Dick,' Only Got Mixed Reviews When It First Hit Bookstores November 14, 2024 An Abandoned Merchant Ship Was Discovered Floating in the Atlantic in 1872.