Melville’s novel was first published in London as The Whale in October 1851 and as Moby-Dick in New York in November 1851.

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the story of a doomed whaling voyage that ends when the ship is rammed and sunk by a massive white sperm whale.

The whale skeleton was kept in a barn at Constable Burton for many years A stately home has appealed for people to return bones from a whale skeleton described in the book Moby Dick. Burton ...