Ahab’’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick

Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahabs Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deepfrom whale hunters to climate refugees.

Richard J. King is visiting associate professor of maritime literature and history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. For more than twenty years he has been sailing and teaching aboard tall ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He writes and illustrates a column on marine animals for Sea History magazine, edits the ＂Searchable Sea Literature＂ website, and was the founding series editor of Seafaring America. He is the author of Lobster and The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History. For more information, visit http: //www.richardjking.info/.