Moby Dick (1999) Houghton Mifflin Paperback Book - (Terry M. West)

A young man named Ishmael has signed up to work on a whaling ship called the Pequod. He and the rest of the crew will spend two years at sea. They plan to hunt as many whales as possible and bring home a fortune.

But once the Pequod is at sea, the mad Captain Ahab allows the men to track only one whale, the dangerous white beast called Moby Dick.

Ahab is willing to risk everything to kill the whale. And Ishmael fears that Ahab’s obsession may lead everyone on the Pequod to a watery grave....