About the Moby Dick Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, is one of the greatestAmerican novels. Ishmael, a young man from Manhattan, is fond of adventures andsea. He decides that his next voyage would be in a whaleshipinstead of current merchant marine. He soon boards Pequod, awhaleship, whose captain Ahab has only one purpose in life-toavenge a sperm whale named Moby Dick that had crippled him on hislast voyage. The ship braves ominous predictions, skeptical crew,rough weather and discouragement of other captains to chase MobyDick. Read this great classic to know if Ahab manages to take hisrevenge and at what cost.