Large Print, Dyslexia-Friendly Edition: "Call me Ishmael." This classic story by Herman Melville follows the keen young whaler, Ishmael, aboard the Pequod for his first whaling mission, and Captain Ahab's obsession with a huge white whale, Moby Dick. The captain lost his leg to the creature years earlier and as the crew soon learns, Ahab will stop at nothing to avenge his nemesis.