by Herman Melville · Editorial Vicens Vives · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788431668242
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«Moby Dick» is Geraldine McCaughrean's adaptation of Herman Melville's classic, published by Vicens Vives in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Young Ishmael signs on to the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain, Ahab, hides an obsessive purpose: to find and kill Moby Dick, a huge white sperm whale that took his leg on a previous voyage. Ahab's revenge infects the crew and turns the whaling expedition into an increasingly reckless adventure.
From the Adapted Classics collection. Adaptation by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus, introduction, notes and activities by Manuel Broncano, and translation by Mariano Antolín.
Aimed at secondary school students and young readers approaching the classics with an adapted version and educational material.
Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet (2004), the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, es worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others.
