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He's the author of the interdisciplinary books lobster, the devil's cormorant: a natural history, and ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of moby-dick.
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Neophytes alike, ahab's rolling sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of melville's novel.
Early in richard king's engaging, informative, and wide‐ranging study of melville's masterpiece, the author arrives at a pedagogical and conceptual crossroads.
“ahab’s rolling sea is a wide-ranging, highly personal, richly eclectic, and extremely well-researched book. There’s a melvillean romance here, and it sits especially well with king’s love and empathy for human as well as natural history.
He set sail: to the far remote pacific ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for moby-dick devotees and neophytes alike, ahab's rolling sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of melville's novel.
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King uses modern sources and historical texts to take a fresh look at melville’s book—published in the same decade as charles darwin’s on the origin of species—with the well-defined brief of assessing its natural history content. The result is a light-hearted and incredibly enjoyable read.
Jan 13, 2021 ahab's rolling sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of melville's novel.
As 2019 marks the bicentennial of herman melville’s birth, ahab’s rolling sea is an epic reminder that we have spent so much time examining the allegorical, religious, and symbolic meanings of melville’s classic moby-dick, we have neglected the natural history of its watery setting.
Visiting assistant professor of science, technology, and society (sts).
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To ‘moby dickheads’, ahab’s rolling sea is a treasure trove. King situates melville as a person of his time, writing amid a quickening pace of discoveries about the natural world but, pre- on the origin of species inclined to couch them as further disclosures of god’s design.
Grew up in lower merion, sails (virtually) into the delaware county institute of science speaker series to tell the story of ahab's rolling sea: a natural history.
Jan 9, 2021 king (ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of moby-dick, 2020) in particular offers helpful tools for thinking about the natural world in melville,.
He set sail: to the far remote pacific ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for “moby-dick” devotees and neophytes alike, “ahab’s rolling sea” is a chronological journey through the natural history and seamanship in melville’s novel.
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Nov 2, 2019 ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of moby-dick and having flushed ahab from his lair on to the deck of the pequod, herman melville.
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Jun 26, 2018 by mike vecchione, noaa/national marine fisheries service national systematics lab, national museum of natural history june 26, 2018.
His famous narrator, ishmael, saw the sea in surprisingly similar ways as we do, and the forthcoming ahab's rolling sea: a natural history of moby-dick.
Dillard avers moby- dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story.
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