Herman Melvilles book the Whale, more popularly known as Moby Dick, was published in 1851. The book is a sailors narrative about his journey on a whaling boat whose captain is obsessed with finding revenge on a great big whale that was responsible for the man losing his leg. Having picked up AND THE OCEAN WAS OUR SKY without knowing about the book or even reading the blurb (one look at the cover and grabbed it off a shelf at a book fair while hurrying to checkout), three pages in and I found...