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Ahab’s vessel, the Pequod, encounters the ship Samuel Enderby, whose captain lost an arm to Moby Dick and will hunt the whale no more. When Ahab learns where the monster was last sighted, he enlists his blacksmith to create a special harpoon: a harpoon that will ensure the destruction of the great white whale that haunts his fevered nightmares and gives him no peace.

This site contains allot of information about Herman Mellvile. Inlcuding a list of biographies and information about his works.  Publishing histories, excerpts, contemporary criticisms and reviews and included for most works.

Here’s a new twist on the classic sperm whale weathervane.  The Moby-Dick Weathervane cast the pivitol point of the novel into copper.  The representation of the water line is interesting, giving you a full view of the whale, but also giving you  insight into Ahab’s perspective atop the “snow hill.”

This weathervane was designed by West Coast Weathervanes.

This is a great painting.  Moby Dick returns to see the damage he wrought to the Pequod and her crew.  It took me a few seconds before I was able to put all the visual elements together.  My eye first went to the wreck, with a few of the crewmen still floating  near the surface.  Then I followed one of the lines down into the deep, noticing the other crew-members, already drowned; which leads to the crew-member in the forefront; who, in utter despair, is reaching for the surface as his last breath escapes him.  I like how the bubbles coming up play alongside the hemp lines descending into the deep.  It wasn’t until my eye hit the bottom of the page that I was able to take in Moby Dick behind all the carnage.  When I first saw the picture my mind filled in the white mass as a cliff rising from the sea floor, or a coral reef or something.  As my eye was following the massive form on the way up, I was able to discern the jaw of the whale, and the entirety of the scene came into focus for me.  I saw the eye, the scars, Moby’s winkled brow, the line he’s wrapped in, and the entangled harpoon.  In my minds eye, I could picture Ahab’s entangled body, just outside the scene.

Excellent work and great attention to details given in the novel.  The artist’s website is here: bbqtako

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