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Michael Rock Invited to Read in Moby Dick Marathon
Michael Rock Invited to Read in Moby Dick Marathon
Michael Rock Invited to Read in Moby Dick Marathon
On this date in 1841, the author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville launched out of Fairhaven on a whaling boat named Acushnet. According to History.com, the vessel "anchored in Polynesia, where Melville took part in a mutiny. He was thrown in jail in Tahiti, escaped, and wandered around the South Sea islands for two years." Naturally...

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