“Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?” - Maritime Labor and the Environment in Melville’s Moby-Dick.

The National Park Service and California State University Maritime Academy are partnering to present the 2nd annual series of free lectures for the public.

All lectures begin at 1 PM. Join us in the Blue Room of the Maritime Museum (900 Beach Street.) Upcoming lecture dates: Saturday 3/17, 5/19,
7/21, 9/15 and 11/10.
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Saturday, March 17, 1-2 PM
Maritime Museum, 900 Beach Street
“Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?” - Maritime Labor and the Environment in Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Amy Parsons will discuss how Moby-Dick frames the environmental and human cost of the industry’s tremendous riches during “the golden age of whaling.”
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