Moby Dick; or the whale

Moby Dick (Moby-Dick, or, The Whale Moby-Dick or Sperm) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville published in 1851, whose title comes from the nickname given to a great white whale in the center of the plot. Melville, who was also sailor, like most of the heroes of his novels, is inspired by real events: Sperm whales continued all wore name. [Ref. needed] the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, which sank in 1820 after facing a large sperm whale 3,700 miles off the coast of South Americ...