In Pursuit of Moby-Dick : Of Whales and Their Gods

Preface: I Will Write
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: No Need to Rush
	Queequeg
	A Gam
	Ahab as Captain and Ahab as Ahab
	Reference
Chapter 2: The Book Itself
	Owning the Whale
Chapter 3: Etymology and Extracts
	Consumptive Usher and Sub-Sub-Librarian 1
	Etymology and Extracts
	Grammar School Ushers
	We Are the Temporary Custodians of Books
	Meaningful Marks
Chapter 4: A Tale Twice Told
	Chapter One: Loomings
	Call Me Ishmael
	Bulkington
	Chapter 102, “A Bower in the Arsacides”
	On Normal and Excessive Humor
Chapter 5: Ishmael and Queequeg
	Meeting Queequeg
	Strange Sensations
	The Whaleman’s Chapel
	My Only Pictures
	My Ishmael’s Reflections on Death
Chapter 6: Going Whaling and a Hint of Ahab
	Elijah 2
	Queequeg
	American Whaling Men
	Introducing Ahab
	Reference
Chapter 7: Ahab as Captain and Ahab as Ahab
	Starbuck
	Stubb
	Flask
	Ahab as Ahab and Ahab as Captain
	Introducing Pip
Chapter 8: Ahab and Moby Dick
	Ahab’s Pain
	My Ishmael Is Also Taken In
	Trying to Understand Ahab
	Free Will and Fate
Chapter 9: The Town-Ho’s Story and Other Gams
	The Crotch
	Stubb’s Supper
	Gams
	The Town-Ho’s Story
Chapter 10: Whales! Conversation, Art, Dining, Business, and Poetry
	Sperm
	Owning the Whale
	A Loose Fish?
	The Castaway
	A Movement of My Twice-Told Tale
Chapter 11: Ahab’s Leg and Ahab’s Life
	Perth
	Mutiny?
	Omens, Real and Imaginary
	A Conclusion for Bildad and Peleg
Chapter 12: Conclusions, the Unity of Moby-Dick, and a Critical Reflection
	Critical References
Index