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Ahab and the White Whale Radicals and Extremists “Good gardening …needs poetry toBy Manuel Marsol, translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts On the island of Nantucket lives the greatest whaling captain of all time. Call him Ahab. He has long searched for the great white whale known as Moby Dick. Whenever Ahab heard any news of the whale, he rushed off to sea in his ship the Pequod. He climbed mountains, scaled sunken wrecks, crossed oceans without any luck. He wasted whole days shut up in his cabin. He traveled to the