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Ahab's rolling sea : a natural history of Moby-Dick / Richard J. King.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

9780226514963 (hc)

430 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

1. Herman Melville: Whaleman, Author, Natural Philosopher -- 2. Numerous Fish Documents -- 3. Cetology and Evolution -- 4. White Whales and Natural Theology -- 5. Whale Migration -- 6. Wind -- 7. Gulls, Sea-Ravens, and Albatrosses -- 8. Small Harmless Fish -- 9. Phosphorescence -- 10. Sword-Fish and Lively Grounds -- 11. Brit and Baleen -- 12. Giant Squid -- 13. Sharks -- 14. Fresh Fare -- 15. Barnacles and Sea Candies -- 16. Practical Cetology: Spout, Senses, and the Dissection of Heads -- 17. Whale and Human Intelligence -- 18. Ambergris -- 19. Coral Insects -- 20. Grandissimus -- 21. Whale Skeletons and Fossils -- 22. Does the Whale Diminish? -- 23. Mother Carey's Chickens -- 24. Typhoons and Corpusants -- 25. Navigation -- 26. Seals -- 27. The Feminine Air -- 28. Noiseless Nautilus -- 29. Sperm Whale Behavior -- 30. Sky-Hawk -- 31. Ishmael: Blue Environmentalist and Climate Refugee.

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