Ahab's Rolling SeaAlthough Herman Melvilles Moby Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writingor even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prizewinning author Annie Dillard avers Moby Dick is the best book ever written about nature, and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmaels sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing