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Summary
Herman Melville's epic novel of Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the white whale that maimed him, narrated by the sailor Ishmael aboard the whaling ship Pequod. Blending adventure, cetology, philosophy, and allegory, the book examines the limits of human knowledge, the nature of obsession, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.