Science, the nation’s premier science journal, and, American Scholar, one of the most prestigious humanities journals, have both published glowing reviews of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by ASLE member Richard King, a visiting associate professor at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. Ahab’s Rolling Sea, published this year in part to commemorate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday, is a work of blue ecocriticism that examines what the author and his contemporary whalemen and naturalists knew about the ocean in the 19th C and then weaves this into a twenty-first century reading of the American classic.
Read the review in Science by author Christopher Kemp:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/431.1.summary
or here:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/10/24/ahabs-rolling-sea/
And in American Scholar, written by Princeton’s Thoreau scholar William Howarth
https://theamericanscholar.org/pursuing-the-white-whale/#.Xcq3TjJKho4