OSHER 436 - Moby Dick: Part 2

This two-semester course focuses on Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", arguably one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. Based in part on Melville's own experience at sea, Moby Dick is also a riveting adventure story. But it is more than that. It is a tragedy, a great political novel, and an extraordinary work of ecology (among many other things). The course is two terms long because "Moby Dick" is an immense novel. The first class covered about the first half of the novel and the second will follow the novel to its conclusion, Moby Dick's destruction of Captain Ahab's ship, The Pequod. Students are welcome to take the second half of the course even if they didn't take the first.