"In this book Walsh sheds new, if not always more positive, light on Ahab, king of Israel during the ninth century BCE."--BOOK JACKET.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasti

This highly acclaimed and provocative interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship explores the complexities of 20th-century American

From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the com

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