tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post78441119278887837..comments2024-03-27T21:49:03.499-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Wednesday Search Challenge (Nov 2, 2011): How much did you understand when you first read Moby Dick?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-5529919800086472172011-11-03T14:58:54.202-07:002011-11-03T14:58:54.202-07:00first i searched "captain ahab ship" sin...first i searched "captain ahab ship" since i never read Moby dick.<br /><br />I found that link:<br />http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_name_of_Captains_Ahab%27s_ship<br /><br />i found the name of the boat: the Pequod.<br /><br />Then i searched<br /><br />"The Pequod descrition Moby Dick"<br /><br />Then the wikipedia link...Chinatmedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03116023837305230836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-17273276049953547432011-11-03T10:10:43.237-07:002011-11-03T10:10:43.237-07:00google: "ahab ship deck plan"
led me to:...google: "ahab ship deck plan"<br />led me to:<br />http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/MobyDick.html (study guide) <br />I searched on site for "deck" but found nothing worthwhile.<br /><br />Further down the Google results:<br />http://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-16-summary.html<br /><br />"The Pequod is an older ship that has already been on a lot of whaling voyages. It has a lot of character, and is decorated with sea-ivory – whalebone and teeth."Bendistrawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11865443052402583086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-90359028094181997782011-11-03T05:58:26.791-07:002011-11-03T05:58:26.791-07:00Chapter 16: She was a thing of trophies. A canniba...Chapter 16: She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the Sperm Whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.<br /><br />Google search "Pequod whale ship"KChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14533712347784780655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-48921928402960281212011-11-03T05:15:14.848-07:002011-11-03T05:15:14.848-07:00In addition to the teeth serving as pins for the r...In addition to the teeth serving as pins for the ropes, don't forget that the ship's tiller was carved from the lower jaw of a sperm whale: <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=XV8XAAAAYAAJ&dq=moby%20dick&pg=PA70#v=snippet&q=teeth&f=falseNiebylskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16335691455403199418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-50305322321548627252011-11-02T17:26:47.862-07:002011-11-02T17:26:47.862-07:00I had to look up the name of the ship, but then th...I had to look up the name of the ship, but then the wikipedia article made it easy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-89662524850282568302011-11-02T17:12:16.471-07:002011-11-02T17:12:16.471-07:00It's been years since I've read Moby Dick ...It's been years since I've read Moby Dick and couldn't remember how to spell Pequod (in my head I had two e's). So first step for me was to search for captain ahab's ship. Pequod popped up and then another google search for pequod upper deck. That brought up a lot of Upper Deck baseball card hits. Changed my search to simply pequod. And the Wikipedia link came up on top.<br /><br />In the description section this appears "she has been ornately decorated, even to the whale teeth set into the railing that now resemble an open jaw."Anoophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01581263103665499667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-12833189540060562872011-11-02T13:00:46.903-07:002011-11-02T13:00:46.903-07:00whale boneswhale bonesWalt Lessunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543175448330140638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-62239570473934980712011-11-02T12:18:09.584-07:002011-11-02T12:18:09.584-07:00Knowing that the ship was called the Pequod, searc...Knowing that the ship was called the Pequod, searching that name turned up the Wikipedia page for the ship, including a quote: The bulwarks of the Pequod were adorned with the teeth of sperm whales.Sam Bleckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14999750341364730193noreply@blogger.com