Hello everybody, I hope this finds you very well, and you had a great start into the new year of 2022. Foremost, I want to thank those of you, who regularly visit and read this blog, I appreciate both your attention and interest.
Those, who read and follow this research blog for a while, might have wondered already, when I would finally come to talk about Moby Dick for the first time. While I missed the bicentennial anniversary of Herman Melville some years ago in 1st August 2019, now I think there is a good occasion to talk of this famous novel now. In January 1997, the New Bedford Whaling museum began to invite people to come together, so that each person can read a chapter for almost two days at the beginning of the year.

As you can imagine, this event comes not only with a lot of fun and enjoyment, but usually brings a lot of people together and due to Covid restrictions however the 2021 as well as the 2022 Moby Dick Marathons have been pursued entirely virtual. In order to give you an impression of how it looks like, the New Bedford whaling museum staff had asked people worldwide and so collected and gathered an 25 hours video recording, which lasts almost as long as it would physically last, if you want to read Moby Dick on a constant base.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum had uploaded the whole reading marathon in several pieces:
From Introduction to Chapter 42
From Chapter 89 to Chapter 132
At this page here, you can find the complete list of each person, who read the chapters. Apart from the English chapters, some chapters were double read in different languages. Chapter 10A, 10B, 41B, 83, 94 and 109 in Portuguese language, and Chapter 51 in German language.