While Moby-Dick is based on true stories, like the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, who eluded whaling vessels for decades before he was killed in 1838 (19 harpoons were recovered from his body ...

Manik Choksi as Ishmael in "Moby-Dick." (Courtesy Evgenia Eliseeva) This article is more than 5 years old. The epic tale of a vengeful sea captain’s quest to kill the mythic sperm whale that ...

Some cutting might prove judicious — though, please, not of the ropes that bind Malloy and Chavkin to “Moby-Dick.” The duo is closer to scoring the whale than Ahab ever was.

Burton Constable Hall, a stately home in the UK, is calling for the return of bones taken as keepsakes from its 48-foot whale skeleton, which was famously mentioned in Herman Melville's classic ...

by Jenna Romaine | Dec. 1, 2021 | Dec. 01, 2021 Story at a glance A Dutch merchant ship off the coast of Jamaica captured video of an all-white sperm whale swimming in the Caribbean.

Moby Dick is the title of Herman Melville's 1851 novel. In it, a sailor, Ishmael, recounts the tale of a sea captain, Ahab, and his obsession with gaining revenge on an enormous white sperm whale ...

This quotation from Moby-Dick may well have been asked by real captains about a different whale–one that inspired the author of that now-famous book. Although Moby-Dick didn’t get much ...

Heggie said 'Moby Dick' is about a man who takes on a journey of self belonging. “He realizes in the end, 'Yes, I do belong and it's not that I have a place, but my home is the world,'' Heggie said.