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© 2019 by Richard J. King

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Published 2019

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51496-3 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51501-4 (e-book)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226515014.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: King, Richard J., author.

Title: Ahab’s rolling sea : a natural history of Moby-Dick / Richard King.

Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019018442 | ISBN 9780226514963 (cloth) | ISBN 9780226515014 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Melville, Herman, 1819–1891. Moby Dick. | Sea in literature.

Classification: LCC PS2384.M63 K56 2019 | DDC 813/.3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019018442

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).