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The ship's name - "Pequod" .
Moby Dick is the name of the whale in the story by Herman Melville.
Moby Dick is a male sperm whale in the novel of the same name by Herman Melville.
The full name of the book is "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" written by Herman Melville.
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Captain Ahab is the character who hunted Moby Dick in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
The name of this book is Moby Dick.
No, Moby Dick is a fictional white whale in Herman Melville's novel of the same name. The story follows Captain Ahab's obsession with hunting Moby Dick, not a goldfish.
The name Pequod comes from the Pequot tribe, a Native American tribe from Connecticut. The Pequod was a fictional whaling ship in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.
In the novel, Ismael says Moby Dick is similar to other names given to famous whales. For example, New Zealand Joe or Greenland Frank. That is, the name derives from "a place" and "a first name". But I don't know what Moby means. Is there a Moby Island?
Moby Dick is a fictional white whale created by Herman Melville in his novel of the same name. The character of Moby Dick does not actually exist in real life.
There was a famous rogue bull whale called "Mocha Dick," named after the island Mocha off the coast of Chile. Melville may have changed the name to "Moby" because he was writing a story about a friend named Tobias ("Toby") at the same time he was writing Moby-Dick.