Himself
Each and every year hundreds of people flock to New Bedford, MA in bleak mid-winter to partake in a celebration like none other. They read this single book out loud over the course of two full days without stopping. All of these people have one thing in common: they are obsessed with Moby Dick, the book that most call the Great American Novel.
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".
Novel
1819年、エセックス号のクルーたちは鯨油を入手するためにアメリカ・マサチューセッツ州のナンタケット島を出港する。一等航海士オーウェン・チェイスをはじめとする乗員たちは、太平洋沖4,800キロメートルの海域で白い化け物のようなマッコウクジラと遭遇。彼らは強大な敵を相手に必死で抵抗するものの船を沈没させられる。
