"It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and manlike sea, heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep."

(Beginning of chapter 132)

Illustrated by Siggi Hofer.

Beginning autumn 2011, Harpune Books Vienna will publish Herman Melville's masterpiece about the Great White Whale and his relentless pursuer Captain Ahab as a serial in 137 chapters. To do justice to the book's many voices, each chapter will be illustrated by a different artist and each limited edition issue of 460 copies will be published in non-chronological order at the rate of one chapter per month