BW18: Literary Legend - Herman Melville

Happy Sunday! Our literary legend for the month is Herman Melville, best known for his epic Moby Dick about Captain Ahab's obsession with the sea and whales.  I've read Moby Dick as well as various spin offs such as Captain Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund and The Wind Whale of Ishmael by Phillip Jose Farmer, both which were as entertaining as well.  

Plus I have Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex in my stacks which "brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history."

Nathaniel Philbrick also wrote Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, as well as other nonfiction book that bring history to life which I have totally enjoyed.  

Berkshire County Historical Society

Moby Dick Inspired Books

Moby-Dick and In the Heart of the Sea

Join in reading Moby Dick or Herman Melville's other books, Moby Dick adaptations, a book about maritime adventures,  whales or other sea creatures, oceanic and marine science fiction, or songs of the sea.