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Herman Melville's <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393285006/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393285006&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=b4c55d8d7996ba589e02a187eb6e441a Moby Dick]</i> (1851) is not only one of the best known but most important works of fiction in United States history. While Melville's book is undoubtalby undoubtedly fiction, he drew widely from his experiences as a whaler and some incredible stories of remarkably dangerous 19th -century whales. His book is an extraordinaly extraordinarily accurate depiction of the life at sea.

Unsurprisingly for a work as prominent as Moby Dick, it has been turned into a movie, starring Gregory Peck and a mini-series, starring Ethan Hawke (2011). Recently, even one of the stories that inspired the novel was turned into the movie In the Heart of the Sea (2015) starring Chris Hemsworth and directed by Ron Howard. So what real events and experiences inspired Melville to write <i>Moby Dick</i>?