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Beyond reading front to back: follow a theme, trace a character or place across the voyage, or compare how the three reading paths cut the same text.

Follow a theme — whaling labor, prophecy, race and empire, biblical allusion — chapter by chapter.

45 trails

Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck and the rest — every chapter each one appears in.

24 characters

Nantucket, the Pacific, the line — the ports and waters the voyage moves through.

27 places

See exactly which chapters Narrative Core and Classroom Standard keep, defer, or cut.

142 units × 3 paths