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Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-07-27

Books mentioned on 551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?

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In the final episode of our whale series, we learn about fecal plumes, shipping noise, and why "Moby-Dick" is still worth reading. (Part 3 of "Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. Moby Dick

    Herman Melville · at 46:42 · mentioned 18 times

    Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a classic American novel that follows Captain Ahab's obsessive, self-destructive quest to hunt down the white sperm whale that maimed him.

    Discussed
    “But the odds are you will have to seek it out, as Melville writes in Moby Dick: it is not down in any map; true places never are.”
    Speaker 551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, a… 2023-07-27 Listen at 46:42
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  2. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Illustrated)

    Herman Melville · at 2:45

    Discussed
    “In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale. At some point, you may have read Moby Dick or pretended to.”
    Speaker 551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, a… 2023-07-27 Listen at 2:45
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library