Roger writes:
>He goes on to describe the Australian whaling and seal-trades - most of it
>not very pretty.
>
>Is there an Australian equivalent (in the literary sense) of M-D?
Not that I know of. I suppose the equivalent in terms of iconic status
(not popularity) might be Patrick White's Voss, which looks at the myth
of the empty interior, the inner sea, rather than the sea around us; a
great novel, but nothing like as inventive as Moby-Dick.
Best
Alison
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