Moby-Dick Big Read, Day 105

In yet another bit of inspired vocal casting, Sir David Attenborough, perhaps the world’s most renowned maker of films about natural history, reads the chapter in which Ishmael contemplates two questions related to the present condition of whales and their future: “Does The Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? — Will He Perish?”

Dismissing the exaggerated descriptions of whales offered by such writers as Pliny and Lac