Whale TalesConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 435
Apr 16, 2020 • 51m
A Colonial Enterprise
Guest: Michael P. Dyer, Curator, Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum
In 18th- and 19th-century New England, whaling was a lucrative, and essential, enterprise. You can't fully understand early New England without understanding whaling.
Ahab’s Rolling Sea
Guest: Richard J. King, author, "Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick"
Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" is the first great American novel about the sea, and it still has many lessons for modern audiences on the nature of the ocean and our relationship to it.