"The ship Pequod, too, was a vestige of an earlier phase of the whaling industry: "She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look about her." She was a ship trophied by past hunts, and named after "a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes." Matt Kish's portrait of the Pequod evokes its inimitability and intricacy, but Melville's own image is at least as fantastic."

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An Undated Books, Inc. “Moby-Dick” book cover from the collection of Bill Pettit.

Just browsing this slideshow with some pretty cool MD covers and all of a sudden, “WAIT, WHAT?!?”

Love it!

"If he can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct problems in Euclid. Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison."

I love/hate how the annotations are done. It's kind of hard to keep reading when the word "hist" is in a bright orange box directing you to learn that "hist" means "hey" or "psst." So, Internet.

Ishmael and Queequeg get to know one another

Ishmael finds a place to stay for the night in New Bedford

Ishmael sets out for New Bedford.

Chapter with information about various whales.