‘My friend Queequeg and I are looking for whaling work,’ Ishmael says.
Ishmael is a sailor from New York. With Queequeg the harpooner, he takes work on Captain Ahab’s whaling-ship, the Pequod. The ship’s first mate, Starbuck, wants to hunt whales for their oil. But Captain Ahab isn’t interested. In the hunt for a white whale twenty years earlier, the captain lost a leg. So now Ahab wants revenge on the white whale – Moby-Dick! Who lives? Who dies? And what happens to Ishmael?
「我朋友Queequeg和我正在找捕鯨工作。」Ishmael這麼說。
Ishmael是個來自紐約的水手，跟著魚叉手Queequeg，他在Ahab船長的船Pequod從事捕鯨工作，這艘船的大副Starbuck想要獵捕鯨魚以得到油脂，但Ahab不感興趣，二十年前尋找白鯨時，船長失去了一條腿，所以現在Ahab想要對白鯨──Moby-Dick復仇，誰能生存？誰會死亡？而Ishmael會發生什麼事？