Moby Dick by Herman Melville (FREE Audiobook Included!)
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel
| Author: | Herman Melville | ISBN: | 1230000038858 |
| Publisher: | Capuchino Book | Publication: | December 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Herman Melville |
| ISBN: | 1230000038858 |
| Publisher: | Capuchino Book |
| Publication: | December 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (FREE Audiobook Included!) ;
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-Included biography the author.
-Added original Illustration.
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I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there. It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. It is time to set the world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all wrong.
It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (FREE Audiobook Included!) ;
-Included TOC for Reader.
-Included biography the author.
-Added original Illustration.
-Free Audiobook link for download.
-This sample in ebook.
I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there. It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. It is time to set the world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all wrong.
It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him.
