A myth of modernity. Despite all the dark, prophetic warnings, Ishmael signs on to the Pequod. What begins as an ordinary whaling expedition transforms under the command of the demonic Ahab into a struggle of ancient magnitude that can only mean doom. In his groundbreaking translation, Matthias Jendis captures this story of the world, woven into the great shroud of the sea, in its infinite polyphony, its pathos, and its precision.