TALES OF LOHR: LOOMINGS

Musings on Melville; Plus: FACTORY ROLL CALL Looks at Jed Johnson

I am currently about a third of the way into Eric Jay Dolin’s Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (2007), and it has quite naturally gotten me reflecting upon a reference source that has already been cited throughout its pages on a number of occasions: Herman Melville’s 1851 novel of cetology and madness, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. Those of my r…