"Captain Ahab" vividly imagines the formative years of Captain Ahab. Ahab’s gruff woodsman father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) narrates the first chapter, starting from his wife’s death in ...

The spermaceti organ is on top — it holds not sperm, but the prized lubricating oil that sent Captain Ahab types on the hunt ... whale foreheads usually have scars on the exterior of the junk ...

Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white whale in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick — have been misunderstood. To most ...

The spermaceti organ is on top — it holds not sperm, but the prized lubricating oil that sent Captain Ahab-types on the hunt ... whale foreheads usually have scars on the exterior of the ...

What is missing is the tragic sense. Captain Ahab is an authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the “malice inscrutable” of ...

That month he took a steamer to Nantucket for his first visit to the Massachusetts island, home port of his novel’s mythic protagonist, Captain Ahab, and his ship, the Pequod. Like a tourist ...

Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much... Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Is it possible?