November 18，1851， Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

1851年的11月18日，赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《莫比-迪克》以《白鲸记》的名字首次由伦敦的神学家理查德·宾利出版发行。

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The dangers and the excitement of those whaling days are written in the Herman Melville's story of the white whale, Moby Dick.

那些捕鲸时期的危险和刺激，被赫尔曼·梅尔维利先生记录在一个关于白鲸的故事里：“MOBY DICK”。

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In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

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