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In Chapter 56, "Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes", of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, the narrator discusses images of whales in published books. Many of these images are visible in the MIT Museum's collections.
Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the primary antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that period, Mocha Dick.
Moby-Dick is based on a real-life whale called Mocha Dick. Named after the Chilean island of Mocha, near where sailors first encountered him, he was a 70-foot albino sperm whale known for...
Sailors aboard the Dutch oil tanker Coral EnergICE glimpsed the ghostly cetacean on Nov. 29, when Capt. Leo van Toly recorded a short video highlighting a brief look at the white sperm whale near...
552 Drawings of Moby-Dick: Librarian Matt Kish Chases His Own White Whale “Call me Ishmael,” goes Moby-Dick’ s famous first line, perhaps one of Western literature’s most instantly recognizable openings.
Moby Dick: Directed by John Huston. With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice. The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
The best pictures of Moby Dick capture the elemental drama of Captain Ahab’s vengeful pursuit of the great white whale in Herman Melville’s famous novel. The first picture shows the sheer size of Moby Dick overwhelming the small fishing boat carrying Ahab and his crew.