Where he is famed for his history of the whaler that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and for arguing plausibly in his "Sea of Glory" that the ocean, not the West, was America's first frontier.

他的成名一方面得益于他的捕鲸史激发了赫尔曼·梅尔维尔创作《白鲸记》的灵感，另一方面也来自他在《光荣之海》中似乎有理的主张：海洋，而不是西部，才是美国的第一前线。

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where he is famed for his history of the whaler that inspired Herman Melville's “Moby Dick” and for arguing plausibly in his “Sea of Glory” that the ocean, not the West, was America's first frontier.

他的成名一方面得益于他的捕鲸史激发了赫尔曼•梅尔维尔创作《白鲸记》的灵感，另一方面也来自他在《光荣之海》中似乎有理的主张：海洋，而不是西部，才是美国的第一前线。

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Jill and I did take the boat—a large, underpowered whaler—for a cruise to an amazing snorkeling spot.

吉尔和我带着这艘船——一艘动力不足的大型捕鲸船——去一个令人惊叹的浮潜地点巡游。

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At the waterline, motorized dinghies called Zodiacs arced around the whaler.

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Several miles away, the Hunter was harassing the Nisshin Maru, and if he ordered it to join the search for the Zodiac it would not reach the whaler again.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

But now Cook was gone, killed by natives in the Sandwich Isles, and he himself had joined a whaler.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'