Moby Dick

Moby-Dick
Bok av Herman Melville
This nineteenth-century classic is at once a thrilling adventure, a timeless allegory, and ';the greatest of American novels' (The Atlantic Monthly). Despite strange warnings, Ishmael, a young schoolteacher from Manhattan, signs up for a voyage aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship departing from New Bedford, Massachusetts. While on shore, he strikes up a friendship with Queequeg, a tattooed South Seas cannibal. The unlikely friends are hired for the journeyonly to discover their commander will be Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged, tyrannical old man fixated on avenging Moby Dick, the great white whale who crippled him. Along with the rest of the crew, including unforgettable characters like the intellectual first mate Starbuck who risks standing up to Ahab, cheerful second mate Stubb, and African harpooner Daggoo, Ishmael sets out for a hair-raising adventure laden with danger and nameless horrors. As they dare to challenge God's most dreaded creation and nature's indifference to human survival, their fate lies with their monomaniacal captain, whose obsession can only lead to tragedy. Considered a masterpiece of American literature, Moby Dickfrom its famous first line, ';Call me Ishmael,' to its dramatic climaxhas fascinated generations of readers.
Klassisk bok om en sjökapten som drabbas av en stor vit val och mister sitt normala liv av sorg och vrede och blir besatt av att jaga och döda valen. spännande dramatisk och överraskande bok som låter typisk manlig men som med all säkerhet kan avnjutas som ett alternativ till en deckare av kvinnor. En sträckläsare och bladvändare man inte skastressa igenom utan njuta av under flera tillfällen för att inte missa njutningen av ord språk och poesin.