![]() ![]() ![]() The plot gets going when the captain and her team find a whaling ship in strange circumstances. The Captain came off second best in an encounter with the whale hunter Toby Wick, and has been searching for his white-hulled ship ever since. Bathsheba is a junior officer to the brutal Captain Alexandra, who leads the war between humanity and whales, a savage conflict where no quarter is given. Like Herman Melville’s novel, this is the tale of an obsessive quest seen through the eyes of an innocent, a young whale whose opening words – “Call me Bathsheba” – nod to one of the most famous first lines in literature. Their view of the world is the opposite of ours, hence the title – the ocean depths are their sky, and “below” them is the “Abyss” of air and land. They fight back on a major scale, with ships and harpoons of their own. ![]() W hat, Patrick Ness asked himself, if Moby-Dick was told by the whale? In Ness’s version, the cetaceans go a lot further than Captain Ahab’s nemesis in Melville’s epic. ![]()
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