Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Join the Backlisted crew as we navigate the swells and surges of Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville. That's right, Moby Dick is a Christmas book! Andy, John and Nicky welcome aboard novelist Jarred McGinnis and writer and editor Erica Wagner to discuss and celebrate this legendary literary leviathan, one that has sunk many a podcast before us. We enjoy a challenge on Backlisted, however; and there are few novels as challenging or rewarding as Moby Dick. So set sail with us in pursuit of Melville's white whale, with readings, songs and truly dreadful puns, on the Backlisted Christmas Special 2024: the Pequodcast that gives new life to an old - and magical - book. Bonus audio! We Wish You a Moby-Dickmas and Ahabby New Year! Andy compiled this playlist to tie in with the Backlisted Christmas Special 2024. It is sequenced to follow (loosely) the plot of Moby-Dick. WARNING! The final track is definitely NSFW i.e. Naughtily Subverting Free Willy. Do not play if there are small children around. * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted *You can sign up to our free newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of Backlisted, the podcast which gives new life to old books.
0:31.3	Today you find us hanging up our stockings in the upstairs room of the Spouter Inn in New Bedford, Massachusetts, sometime in the mid-1840s.
0:41.3	The room is dominated by a large bed, the only furniture apart from a small table.
0:46.6	On the wall, there's a print of a man, lancing a whale on the shelf above the fireplace,
0:51.5	a parcel of fierce-looking bone fish hooks.
0:56.4	A large metal harpoon leans menacingly against the headboard of the bed. In front of the dying fire, a tall,
1:03.3	heavily tattooed man lifts what looks like a large tomahawk to his lips and begins to puff
1:10.3	clouds of smoke into the semi-darkness.
1:14.0	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, where people pledge to support the books they really want to read.
1:19.1	And I'm Andy Miller, the author of the Year of Reading Dangerously.
1:23.2	And from Noel's heart, I stab at thee.
1:28.7	Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas, everybody.
1:30.9	Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
1:32.6	Let's raise her.
1:33.5	Oh, ho, ho.
1:34.0	Let's raise a tot of rum to everyone listening at home.
1:38.5	There we go.
1:39.2	Cheers, everyone.
1:40.0	Cheers.
1:40.7	Cheers.
1:41.6	Clinking.
1:42.0	A little clink.
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