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Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing

By Thompson , Keith

Book information

Publisher
MacAdam;Cage
Year
2006
ISBN
9781596929890, 1596921722, 9781596921726
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2309651 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Moby-Dick for the blog generation. Cat food cannery worker Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child, and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack. With a rickety boat and a heavily restrictive whale-hunting license, Gus sets out to exact his revenge. Along the way, Gus keeps an online journala blogto keep the world informed about his misfit crew, his clashes with pirates, his near-fatal incarceration, and his infatuation with a certain island princess. Complete with author-drawn scrimshaw illustrations, Gus Openshaws Whale-Killing Journal is the hilarious documentation of one mans obsessive pursuit of a giant whale that would make Captain Ahab proud.Library : GeneralFormats : EPUBISBN : 9781596921726

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