Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby Dick: by Richard J. King, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2019, 430 pp., $30.00, £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0226514963

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is the most famous novel about the sea of all time. Its tale of Captain Ahab’s vendetta against the white sperm whale in the Pequod, and the journey and survival of the ...