'Breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!' cried Ahab. 'Thy hour and thy
harpoon are at hand!' Why does Captain Ahab look like a man who's being
crucified? How did he come by that hideous scar and the false leg made
of a whale's bone? And why is he obsessed by Moby Dick, the great white
whale? Ishmael, the new recruit, has other strange shipmates. There's
Queequeg for instance, covered in weird tattoos and selling shrunken
human heads. And what of the shadowy figures creeping on board the
whaling ship Pequod? Ahab leads them all in reckless pursuit of Moby
Dick. Will he succeed in killing the whale, or will Moby Dick lure Ahab
and his crew to destruction?
Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy
development of primary and lower secondary age children while
introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage.
Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the
world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as
a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other
cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the
original versions.