I WANT TO KNOW Moby Dick Was Real Laura Baskes Litwin E Enslow Publishing 101 W 23rd Street Suite 240 New York NY 10011 USA enslow.com
Chapter 1 The Mighty Whale Moby-Dick is the most famous book ever written about a whale The author Herman Melville understood that an animal as unusual as a whale would make a great main character While Moby Dick did not really exist the book was based on a real whale and the true story of a terrible shipwreck The Super-sized Sperm Whale Moby Dick was a species of whale called a sperm whale Sperm whales are absolutely gigantic Each can weigh up to 50 tons 100,000 pounds 45,359 kilograms and grow to more than 60 feet 18 meters long
Moby Dick or The White Whale By Herman Melville Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer New York Dodd Mead and Company MCMXXXIV clover park Jupiter high school Written more than 150 years ago Moby-Dick is one of the great classics of American literature
