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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Chasing the white whale
    sub title: the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today
  name:
    name part: Dowling, David Oakey
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: iau
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Shipping out -- That everlasting itch: the allure of whaling and marathon reading -- Queequeg's ink: the dilemma of reading the inscrutable -- Readers and crew -- Captain and mates: honored readers -- Harpooners and sailors: the unsung readers -- Twenty-five tumultuous hours -- Survival: enduring the sledge-hammering seas of the soul -- The breach: exulting in the whale.
  note: by David Dowling.
  note: "The nonstop reading of Melville's titanic epic 'Moby Dick' in the setting of New Bedford's Whaling Museum has inspire[d] this fresh look at the novel in light of its most devoted followers. With some trepidation, David Dowling joined the ranks of the Melvillians to participate in the event for the full twenty-five hours. He survived to [tell] the tale of the voyage to the marathon reading that organizes his critical analysis of the novel from its romantic departure to its sledgehammering seas, detailing the culture of the top brass to the common crew and scrutinizing the inscrutable in and through Melville's great novel"--Provided by publisher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville, Herman
      name part: 1819-1891
  subject:
    topic: Sea stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Whaling in literature
  subject:
    topic: Whales in literature
  classification: PS2384.M62 D69 2010
  classification: 813/.3
  identifier: 9781587299063 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1587299062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781587299407 (eBook)
  identifier: 1587299402 (eBook)
  identifier: 2010010257
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100317
    record change date: 20151202112957.0
    record identifier: in00002674665