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In Search of Moby Dick
Quest for the White Whale
by Tim Severin
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Tim Severin travels to the island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia, where Herman Melville ended up in 1842. From his investigations Severin concludes that MOBY-DICK came largely out of that experience and, more specifically, out of the islanders' beliefs about whales. He includes a great deal of information about the Polynesians' methods of whale hunting and about how young Polynesian men come of age in the process.
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9780783893624,
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Thorndike Pr,
2001
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9780465076963,
Hardcover,
Perseus Books Group,
2000
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9780306810459,
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Perseus Books Group,
2001
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9780754015574,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
2001
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9780316645959,
Hardcover,
Trafalgar Square,
2000
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"One of the refreshing things about Tim Severin is that one believes what he says....Severin never finds his Moby Dick, but he hears plenty of stories about him."
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