Big game hunter and whaling captain trade pot shots at an elephant and a whale.

"When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed to increase animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentze investigate, it becomes increasingly clear that the...

"Mobi-Dik - ėto istorii{u0361}a ustrashai{u0361}ushche neotrazimogo sumasshedshego vedushchego nechestivui{u0361}u voĭnu protiv sushchestva, stol' zhe ogromnogo, onasnogo i nepoznavaemogo, kak samo more. No bol'she, chem prosto prikli{u0361}uchencheskiĭ roman, bol'she, chem ėnt{u0361}siklopedii{u0361}a predaniĭ i legend kitoboĭnogo promysla, knigu mozhno rassmatrivat' kak chast' pozhiznennogo razmyshlenii{u0361}a ee avtora ob Amerike. Napisannyĭ...

Every reader knows the obsessive story of Captain Ahab and the famous white whale. Moby Dick is the great American novel, a monument of literature. Based on the events depicted in the "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex" and the legend of "Mocha Dick," it is the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage aboard the whaling ship the Pequod. Commanded by the obsessed Captain Ahab, a man who...

A young anthroplogist in the South Seas is carried back in time to a whaling vessel in the year 1821.