“Moby-Dick” spends much of its time on the job ... a ship or the cresting swell of a wave — and clever projections paint the treacherous outings of the Pequod’s tiny whaling boats, each ...

The horrors of the Essex would live on as a source of inspiration for one of America’s greatest novels, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the story of a doomed whaling voyage that ends when the ...