Moby-Dick or The Whale: And an Extract from Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Esse

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.