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Moby Dick Chapter 40 Midnight Forecastle, Harpooneers and Sailors

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Moby Dick Chapter 40 Midnight Forecastle, Harpooneers and Sailors

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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/270 ... m#2HCH0040

This one shows the multicultural nature of whaling.

It features a song used in Jaws


A full version of the Spanish Ladies song is at
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Just by the way, you're doing a bang-up DL job here, Robert. The music tie-in is apt, as this chapter will be great in Lloyd Webber's musical "Moby," should he ever get such an idea. Imagine a "motley crew" of mostly swarthy sailors gamboliing and singing over decks and riggings. A whaling ship is a veritable UN. Some of the characters refer to their gods and goddesses, which makes us see how Ish came by his broad-mindedness in religion. It's all fine with our author; I think we can justifiably say that Melville is of the "all religions are one" school of thought.
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In the Washington DC area The Washington Revels put on a program each year of sea shanties - I've been tempted many times to go to hear them.

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DWill wrote:Just by the way, you're doing a bang-up DL job here, Robert. The music tie-in is apt, as this chapter will be great in Lloyd Webber's musical "Moby," should he ever get such an idea. Imagine a "motley crew" of mostly swarthy sailors gamboliing and singing over decks and riggings. A whaling ship is a veritable UN. Some of the characters refer to their gods and goddesses, which makes us see how Ish came by his broad-mindedness in religion. It's all fine with our author; I think we can justifiably say that Melville is of the "all religions are one" school of thought.
A book by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance, is about how Australian history was shaped in the nineteenth century by the long clipper voyage to England, including the figure 8 great circle route around Antarctica.

Blainey discusses whaling as the first global industry, prefiguring modern globalisation.

This chapter of Moby Dick, setting out the many diverse nationalities aboard the Pequod, helps show the multicultural globalised nature of whaling.
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