Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691146157ISBN-10:691146152UPC:9780691146157Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, History, Life SciencesBook Topic:State & Local, ZoologySize:8.90 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCSNGQCFJW
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 here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691146157ISBN-10:691146152UPC:9780691146157Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, History, Life SciencesBook Topic:State & Local, ZoologySize:8.90 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCSNGQCFJW
D. Graham Burnett is associate professor of history at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet magazine. His books include Masters of All They Surveyed and A Trial by Jury.
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