The Wind Whales of Ishmael Author:Philip Jose Farmer Ishael, the lone survivor of the Pequod, and now at the Rachel, fell through time and into the skies of a future Earth...where most life had taken to the air, which was slowly disappearing. — Yet even here a whaler from another age can find a home....for this was an Earth of mighty whales that soared through the air, of whalers who flew their boa... more »ts more than sailed them--Here, too, was the key to mankind's new beginning, or it's end« less