Mentioned in Moby Dick

WHS (specific places that are clearly part of the core zone) which are mentioned in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.

See this resource: https://mobydickgazetteer.org/index.php

Art and Architecture

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Elephanta Caves "Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale’s, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India." (p. 205)
Pompei "In various enchanted attitudes, like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast." (p366)
Québec "The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec." (p63)
Syracuse ".. that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen." (p147)
Venice and its Lagoon "So, too, Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St. Mark!—St. Dominic, purge it!" (p196)

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