Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo. PHOTO: PENGUIN BOOKS In the original version, the ship is led by the white Captain Ahab, with his peg leg and raging vendetta against the whale who bit his leg off.

Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod ... It is a metaphysical pursuit, the embodiment of what Ahab deems as evil. Moby Dick took his leg on a ...

The Pequod, a Nantucket whaler, is captained by a peg-legged man called Ahab, obsessed with killing Moby-Dick, the white whale that claimed his leg at their ... the son of the captain of another ...

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick ... Jovanovich, limping around on an artificial peg-leg, was commanding. He pushed his sturdy tenor to the edge to show Ahab as crazed and ...

Trump Derangement Syndrome has left Merchan a modern Captain Ahab, dooming himself with an obsessive pursuit of his target long past all reason: He’s going to go under, tangled in his own harpoon.

NORTHAMPTON — Not many garden gnomes have gone skydiving, climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, and been the best man at a wedding, but it is all in a day’s work for Captain Ahab ...

The ‘it’ is Captain Ahab’s peg leg, a legacy of the seaman’s brush with a mighty whale – the Moby Dick of the title – that, in Herman Melville’s classic story, the vengeful Ahab is ...

In pursuing the whale, Ahab is in many ways motivated by his pain, as symbolized by his missing leg. Captain Ahab from Plexus Polaire's "Moby Dick." (Courtesy Christophe Raynaud de Lage ...

At the smallest kernel of its 597 pages, Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab, whose leg has been bitten ... a wooden replica of the “ivory” peg-leg that Peck used during filming, along ...

Olbermann also compared Licht to "Captain Ahab," a reference to the famous, tragic hero of "Moby-Dick," who causes the death of most of his crew in his mad quest to kill a whale. "Moby-Licht?" ...