Moby Dick

Moby Dick roams the remote, uncivilized seas frequented by sperm whale fishermen, his white hump and distinctive wrinkled brow making him recognizable even across the limitless uncharted ocean. For years he has haunted these waters, his presence whispered in maritime circles long before most whalers encounter him directly. His reputation is built upon a pattern of violent, cunning assaults: he has stove boats, torn limbs from men, and driven pursuers back in consternation to their ships. What sets him apart from ordinary leviathans is his apparent reasoning—a malicious intelligence that manifests in calculated retreats and sudden turnarounds that catch hunters unaware. He bears the marks of his violent encounters: harpoon irons embedded in his flanks, twisted and wrenched from past struggles. Some of the world's most experienced whaling captains have faced him and lived to tell of his devastating power. Whether by luck, skill, or some unearthly agency, he has escaped every attempt to bring him to final reckoning, and his legend grows with each passing season as more ships report encounters with the great white phantom of the deep.