When
the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little
does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the
fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a
white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and
destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst
and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition
becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry.
One
of the great American novels, if not the greatest, Moby Dick epically
combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of
the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the
nature of good and evil.
