Philbrick's entire purpose for this novel was to expose America to the frightening story that sparked one of the most well-known adult classics, Herman Melville's, Moby Dick. ... This book is related to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Actually, it depicts the events that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. ...
If we are to see in the Pequod under Ahab a symbol of the teleocratic state, of the state conceived as a mechanism for achieving a substantive purpose [note oakeshott phrase earlier], we first need to identify precisely what distinguishes the hunting of Moby-Dick from the hunting of sperm whales generally, and why this difference points towards two essentially different visions of the state. ... If we concentrate on the similarly purposeful quality of the quest for vengeance and toil for profit, Moby-Dick might present itself most readily as a critique merely of some kinds of state-mandated ...
Included in the district is the park visitor center, built as a bank in 1853; the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the world's largest museum devoted to the history of American whaling; and the Seamen's Bethel, made famous as the whalemen's chapel in Moby-Dick. ...
