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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 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burnett, D. Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2007.
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