Trying Leviathan : : The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature / / 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 s...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
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Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 16 color plates. 19 halftones. |
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