My friend Queequeg and I are looking for whaling work,´ Ishmael says.áIshmael is a sailor from New York. With Queequeg the harpooner, he takes work on Captain Ahab´s whaling-ship, the Pequod. The ship´s first mate, Starbuck, wants to hunt whales for their oil. But Captain Ahab isn´t interested.áIn the hunt for a white whale twenty years earlier, the captain losT a leg. So now Ahab wants revenge on the white whale Moby-Dick!áWho lives? Who dies? And what happens to Ishmael?
