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481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)

The History of Literature

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The White Whale of the Pacific

Was there a real Moby Dick? That's the question. Will Dinger's dream up this idea, did he? Of chasing a white whale all over the globe? No, he did not. Whalers got to know individual whales. They talked about them, compared notes and they could chase them around the globe.

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