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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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"Moby-Dick" ist nicht nur ein Seitenwender, sondern ein Aufbewahrungsort der amerikanischen Geschichte und Kultur und der Grundlagen der westlichen Literatur. Das Buch ist so enzyklopädisch, dass Weltraum-Aliens es nutzen könnten, um die Walfischerei neu zu erschaffen, wie sie einst auf dem Planeten Erde Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts existierte.

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