Moby Dick Illustrated Classic Editions Author:Herman Melville Moby Dick by Herman Melville in a specially adapted version for young readers by Shirley Bogart. — Despite strange warnings, Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship, only to discover that her commander is the one-legged, fanatic Captain Ahad, whose only goal in life is revenge on the Great White Whale who crippled him. With an... more » unexpected blood-brother in the person of a tattooed South Sea cannibal harpooner, Ishmael sets out on a hair-raising whale hunt that can have only one ending - death!