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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
Trying Leviathan The NineteenthCentury New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
Author: D. Graham Burnett
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691129501
ISBN-10: 0691129509
Publication Date: 10/22/2007
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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