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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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