Not a fanWind Whales of Ishmael, terrible book.
The wind whales of Ishmael (1971)
Others: Negative Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth--an earth that no longer has seas to sail or a safe harbor to call home.
- ISBN:
- 9781781162972
- Length:
- 171 pages
Genres: science fiction
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