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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the thing a man hunts is only the shadow of the madness already inside him? In *Moby-Dick*, Herman Melville transforms a whaling voyage into one of the most powerful meditations on obsession, fate, nature, faith, and the limits of human...

Brought to you by Penguin. I must work on a ship as a man… Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas. 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with...

Sjömannen Ismael mönstrar på valfångstfartyget Pequod som leds av den excentriske kaptenen Ahab. För många år sedan förlorade Ahab sitt ben under ett möte med den vita valen Moby Dick, och har sedan den dagen drömt om hämnd. Driven av galenskap ger han sig ut på jakt efter havsodjuret och får med Ismael och resten av besättningen på äventyret. Ahabs besatthet sätter inte bara hans eget liv på spel utan även alla andras ombord på fartyget. Kaptenen har förklarat krig mot ett av havets mäktigaste odjur och är beredd att offra allt för att få sin revansch.

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance.

Der berühmte weiße Wal – und sein hartnäckigster Gegner... Der finstere Kapitän Ahab, Matrose Ismael, Harpunier Queequeg – alle an Bord des Walfängers „Pequod“ und auf der Jagd nach Moby Dick. Ahab hat nur ein einziges Ziel: den weißen Wal, der ihm das Bein abgerissen hat, zu jagen und zu töten. In seinem blinden Fanatismus ist er bereit, sein Leben und das all seiner Matrosen zu opfern, um das Ungeheuer endgültig zu erledigen.

Ahab is the captain of a whaling ship named the Pequod. His great obsession with the giant whale, Moby Dick, makes him embark on a dangerous voyage. Some years before, the captain lost his leg because of the whale and now Ahab’s main desire is to take his revenge on the whale by killing it. He is so obsessed, that Ahab is ready to sacrifice everything he has, including the Pequod and all the members of his crew, and even his own life.