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Hey, thank you, thank you, all three. Two years ago a friend loaned me
his copy of the edition with the illustrations by Alexander Kent. It
was my second read (over a span of 50 years) and I did not recall any
of these references.  Hewitt

On 1/30/09, George Huxtable  wrote:
>
>  Hewitt Schlereth asked-
>
> | Has anyone searched Moby Dick for lunars, noon sight or sextant? If
>  | not, sounds like MD may be digitized and sitting somewhere searchable.
>  | How do I go about it?
>  |
>  | Hewitt
>
>
> I don't recall Melville taking much interest in navigation, in Moby Dick,
>  perhaps for the reasons I put forward earlier, that a whaler is indifferent
>  to latitude and longitude. To be honest, I've never enjoyed reading Moby
>  Dick, on account of its flowery and allegorical language. I prefer direct
>  and simple writing.
>
>  But Hew's proposed search might turn up something of interest. I'm pretty
>  sure it will have been digitised. This is how I would go about such a
>  search, though it may not be the most efficient way-
>  In the Google search box, type in Google Books. Having got there, click on
>  "advanced search". This takes you to a form in which you can enter "Moby
>  Dick" as the title, and "Melville" as the author. It will give various
>  options for your search, and choose "full view", which will reject any
>  versions that have not been fully digitised. Then click Search.
>  You will then see any fully-digitised options: there may possibly be more
>  than one edition or version to choose from.
>  You can then scan down the pages, or choose particular pages to read, but
>  instead, you will want to enter "lunar" or perhaps "lunar*" (which will
>  embrace both lunar and also lunars) and click "search". It should then list
>  any occurrences of that word in the column on the right. However, that
>  searching action is not 100% accurate, depending as it does on
>  word-recognition using OCR (optical character recognition). Bit it's
>  remarkably good.
>
>
>  George.
>
>  contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
>  or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
>  or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>
>
>  >
>

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