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Moby-Dick A Picture Voyage Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Moby-Dick : a picture voyage : an abridged and illustrated edition of the original classic / by Herman Melville ; edited by Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, Marsha L. McCabe ; with illustrations from the New Bedford Whaling Museum. p. cm. ISBN 0-932027-68-7 (pbk.) -- ISBN 0-932027-73-3 (Cloth) 1. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick--Illustrations. 2. Sea stories, American--Illustrations. 3. Whaling ships--Pictoirial works. 4. Whaling--Pictorial works. 5. Whales--Pictorial works. I. Burt, Tamia A. II. Thomas, Joseph D. III. McCabe, Marsha. IV. Title. PS2384.M6 A36 2002 813'.3--dc21 2002009311 © 2002 by Spinner Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Spinner Publications, Inc., New Bedford, MA 02740 Moby-Dick A Picture Voyage An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic by Herman Melville Edited by Tamia A. Burt, Joseph D. Thomas, Marsha L. McCabe with illustrations from The New Bedford Whaling Museum Acknowledgments / Credits Naturally, no serious book concerning the American whaling industry can be done with- out interaction with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. We are grateful to Director Anne Brengle and Director of Programs Lee Heald for their support. We are especially grateful to the Museum’s library staff, particularly Assistant Librarian Laura Pereira and Librarian Michael Dyer, for their energy and helpfulness, and to Collections Manager Mary Jean Blasdale, Curator Michael Jehle, volunteer Irwin Marks, Emeritus Director Richard Kugler, and Photo Archivist Michael Lapides. When we began work on this project, The Kendall Whaling Museum was an indepen- dent entity in Sharon, Massachusetts, and we were fortunate enough to receive the gracious assistance and eminent knowledge of the Kendall’s Director, Stuart M. Frank, who provided detailed information on all images from the Kendall Collection. We are also grateful to the Kendall’s entire staff in Sharon. The Kendall Museum has since merged with the New Bedford Whaling Museum and we have credited all images from the Kendall as “Kendall Collection, NBWM.” There are two families that provided use of their fabulous photographic collections: The Kingman/Greenhalgh family of New Bedford, Dartmouth and Nantucket, and the William R. Hegarty family. Special thanks for courtesy usage from the MIT Museum, the Millicent Library in Fairhaven, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Arthur Moniz and Ted Holcombe. Thanks to the Mayor of New Bedford, Frederick M. Kalisz, Jr., for his support. Editing Collections Tamia Burt Arthur Moniz Studios Joseph D. Thomas Edwards Family Collection Marsha L. McCabe Forbes Collection of the MIT Museum William R. Hegarty Collection Design / Art Editor T. E. Holcombe Kendall Collection, NBWM Joseph D. Thomas Kingman Family Collection Millicent Library, Fairhaven Electronic Imaging National Archives New Bedford Free Public Library Jay Avila New Bedford Whaling Museum Peabody Salem Museum Production R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Andrea V. Tavares, copy-editing Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia Anne J. Thomas , copy-editing Milton P. George, marketing Support provided by Jim Grasela, copy-editing The Massachusetts Cultural Council Ruth Caswell, research The City of New Bedford Claire Nemes, marketing Kendall Mattos, research John K. Robson, photography Seth Beall, photography Contents Preface 6 70 The Sphynx 124 72 The Monkey Rope 125 Introduction 7 73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale… 126 Chapter 74 The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View 128 1 Loomings 13 75 Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View 129 2 The Carpet-Bag 16 76 The Battering-Ram 131 3 The Spouter-Inn 20 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun 132 4 The Counterpane 27 78 Cistern and Buckets 133 5, 6 Breakfast • The Street 28 81 The Pequod Meets the Virgin 135 7, 8 The Chapel • The Pulpit 32 84 Pitchpoling 141 9 The Sermon 34 85 The Fountain 142 10, 11 A Bosom Friend • Nightgown 36 86 The Tail 143 12 Biographical 37 87 The Grand Armada 144 13 Wheelbarrow 38 88 Schools and Schoolmasters 149 14 Nantucket 48 89 Fast-fish and Loose-fish 150 15 Chowder 49 91, 92 The Pequod Meets the Rose-bud • Ambergris 151 16 The Ship 51 93 The Castaway 154 18 His Mark 60 94 A Squeeze of the Hand 155 20 All Astir 61 95 The Cassock 157 21 Going Aboard 63 96 The Try-works 158 22 Merry Christmas 64 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up 161 23, 24 The Lee Shore • The Advocate 66 100 Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket… 164 26, 27 Knights and Squires • Knights and Squires 68 101 The Decanter 167 28 Ahab 71 102 A Bower in the Arsacides 168 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb 72 103 Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton 169 30, 31 The Pipe • Queen Mab 74 105 Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will he Perish? 170 32 Cetology 75 106, 107, 108 Ahab’s Leg • The Carpenter • Ahab and the Carpenter 171 33, 34 The Specksynder • The Cabin Table 78 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin 172 35 The Lookout 80 110 Queequeg in his Coffin 173 36 The Quarter-Deck 81 111 The Pacific 174 37 Sunset 84 112, 113 The Blacksmith • The Forge 180 41 Moby Dick 85 114 The Gilder 182 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 88 115 The Pequod meets the Bachelor 183 43, 44 Hark! • The Chart 90 116 The Dying Whale 184 45 The Affadavit 91 117 The Whale Watch 185 47 The Mat Maker 92 118 The Quadrant 186 48 The First Lowering 93 119 The Candles 187 49 The Hyena 96 123 The Musket 189 50 Ahab’s boat and crew. Fedallah 98 124 The Needle 191 51 The Spirit Spout 99 126 The Life Buoy 192 52 The Albatross 101 128 The Pequod Meets the Rachel 194 53 The Gam 102 131 The Pequod Meets the Delight 196 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales 104 132 The Symphony 197 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales… 105 133 The Chase—First Day 199 57 Of Whales in Paint; In Teeth; In Wood… 110 134 The Chase—Second Day 204 58, 60 Brit • The Line 111 135 The Chase—Third Day 208 61 Stubb Kills a Whale 114 Epilogue 215 62 The Dart 116 Index 217 63 The Crotch 117 64 Stubb’s Supper 118 Bibliography 221 65 The Shark Massacre 121 67, 68, 69 Cutting In • The Blanket • The Funeral 122 Preface If you’re looking for a good adventure story but In Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage, we have tried to untill now have been too intimidated by Moby-Dick’s keep the story short and simple, yet true to the essence of reputation to read it, this abridgement is for you. We’ve the novel. First-time readers will discover Melville’s sense made this great novel more accessible so you can read and of humor, his extensive knowledge of whaling and whale enjoy it without having to keep handy an encyclopedia men, and his advocacy of the whale 150 years before “ani- or a Melville scholar. Yet Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage mal rights” and conservationism were recognized ideas: maintains the plot and has kept much of the symbolism, “the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure allegory, humor and philosophy. so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he But alas, there are many abridged editions of Moby- must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and Dick already in print. Thus we join an ever-expanding the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and cadre of publishing sharks feeding off the carcass of then evaporate himself in his last puff.” Melville’s leviathan. Poor Herman. He never lived to see Melville was also a prophet, making astonishingly the glory of his work, but he always believed in his mission. accurate predictions about the future of man. Though The body text of this work is from the 1930 edi- deploring the “butchering sort of business of whaling,” tion of Moby-Dick published by R.R. Donnelley & Melville acknowledged how whalers and whale men Sons Company. Though we have edited chapters and changed the world: “If that double-bolted land, Japan, shortened a few paragraphs, we have not tampered with is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone the author’s sentence structure or grammatical style. The to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the marathon sentences, peculiar punctuation and archaic threshold.” This prediction would come true within spelling are pure Melville. months of the release of Moby-Dick in 1851 (learn the We’ve made this version unique by heavily illustrat- story of John Manjiro, castaway rescued by an American ing it with a treasury of images that give an accurate whaleship). account of Ishmael’s great adventure and Melville’s real- But mostly you’ll discover Melville’s genius as a life whaling experience. We have transformed the book writer. He describes so vividly the sensations, emotions, into a storyboard animated with authentic photographs and events of a whaling trip that you’ll almost see, smell, that thoroughly portray the whaling industry and cul- and touch them for yourself. ture, as well as places visited by Ishmael and Melville. Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage is not a substitute for We’ve included original whaler artwork such as the original. You should still read an unabridged version logbook and journal paintings, scrimshaw, etchings and of Moby-Dick so as not to miss the power and depth illustrations. You’ll find drawings and engravings from of the original text—no abridgement can ever be an old books and journals depicting nineteenth-century improvement over this American classic.