I still remember “Moby Dick”, the famous novel written in 1851 which tells the adventure of the narrator ‘Ishmael’ who sails on a whaling ship under the command of Captain ‘Ahab’. Thinking he has signed onto a routine commission on a normal whaling vessel, he soon realises that Captain Ahab’s real intention is the pursuit of his life-long obsession; a specific whale known as Moby – Dick, a giant whale known to destroy whalers that seek him. Captain Ahab’s obsession had cost him his leg and a ship, and eventually also costs Captain Ahab his life and his crew in a final standoff against the whale in the rough high seas.
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