Moby DickIn Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8. |
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Ahab's aloft beneath Bildad boat boat's bones bows Bulkington cabin called Cape Horn Captain Ahab Captain Peleg Cetology Chapter chase chief mate coffin creature crew cried Ahab Daggoo darted dead deck devil doubloon eyes feet fish fishery Flask flukes forecastle gunwale hand harpoon head heard heart hoisted instant iron ivory Jonah lance Leviathan living look mast mast-head mate Moby Dick Nantucket Nantucket ship Narwhale never night oars ocean once Parsee Pequod poor Porpoise Queequeg Right Whale rolled round sail sailors seemed seen sharks ship ship's shipmates side sight sleep soon sort soul Sperm Whale spermaceti spout standing Starbuck Steelkilt stern stood strange Stubb tail Tashtego tell thee there's thing thou thought turned vessel voyage whale-ship whalemen White Whale wild wind
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Page 4 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Page 14 - Call me Ishmael. Some years ago— never mind how long precisely— having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
Page 6 - Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 142 - I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.
Page 89 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 103 - Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance. Not a word he spoke; nor did his officers say aught to him; though by all their minutest gestures and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy, if not painful, consciousness of being under a troubled master-eye. And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before...
Page 294 - But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
Page 91 - ... all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
Page 10 - THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE. lo ! P»an ! lo ! sing, To the finny people's king, Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is, Not a fatter fish than he Flounders round the Polar Sea. See his blubber — at his gills What a world of drink he swills ! From his trunk, as from a spout, Which next moment he pours out. Such his person. Next declare, Muse, who his companions are : Every fish of generous kind Scuds aside, or slinks behind ; But about his presence keep All the monsters...
Page 213 - Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea ; all whose creatures prey upon f each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.