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Epilogue - Read by Mary Oliver - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day - Read by James Naughtie - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day - Read by Roger Allam - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day - Read by Kerry Shale - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 132: The Symphony - Read by Cerys Matthews - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets the Delight - Read by Daniel Allen - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 130: The Hat - Read by Diana Speed - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 129: The Cabin - Read by Rev. Nick McKinnel - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets the Rachel - Read by Alice Herrick - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 127: The Deck - Read by Tom Thoroughgood & Cyrus Larcombe-Moore - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 126: The Life-Buoy - Read by Paul Minot - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 125: The Log and Line - Read by Sheila Snelgrove - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 124: The Needle - Read by Stephanie Boxall - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 123: The Musket - Read by Nick Ryan - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft - Thunder and Lightning - Read by Max Goonetillake

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Chapter 121: Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks - Read by Robert Fearns - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 120: The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch - Read by Novar Cane

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Chapter 119: The Candles - Read by Mary Martin - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 118: The Quadrant - Read by Horatio Morpurgo - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 117: The Whale Watch - Read by Dr Routledge - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 116: The Dying Whale - Read by Jenny Cuffe - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor - Read by Read by Stormy, Josiah and Nathaniel Mayo

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Chapter 114: The Gilder - Read by Tom Maryniak - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 113: The Forge - Read by Eva Stalker - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 112: The Blacksmith - Read by Emma Ayres - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 111: The Pacific - Read by Mark Carwardine - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin - Read by Dugald Ferguson - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin - Read by Richard Wood - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter - Read by R. F. 'Griff' Griffith - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 107: The Carpenter - Read by Lydia Richards - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg - Read by Joyelle McSweeney - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? - Read by Sir David Attenborough - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale - Read by Elizabeth Bradfield - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton - Read by Will Eaves - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides - Read by Marina Warner - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 101: The Decanter - Read by Zeb Soanes - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 100: Leg and Arm - Read by Erica Wagner - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 99: The Doubloon - Read by Cyrus and Liam Patell - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up - Read by Gail Cullen - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 97: The Lamp - Read by James Balla - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 96: The Try-Works - Read by Mark Ashurst - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 95: The Cassock - Read by John Waters - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 94: A Squeeze of the Hand - Read by Tony Kushner - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 93: The Castaway - Read by Carolyn Brown - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 92: Ambergris - Read by Michael Bracewell - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud - Read by Meri Ratzel & Ben Haas - mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 90: Heads or Tails - Read by Oliver Colville - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish - Read by Jane Sharp - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters - Read by Tania Kovats - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 87: The Grand Armada - Read by Gordon Weiss - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 86: The Tail - Read by Dennis Minsky - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 85: The Fountain - Read by Scott McVay - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 84: Pitchpoling - Read by Cynthia Walsh - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded - Read by Colin Bailey - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 82: The Honor and the Glory of Whaling - Read by Tony de los Reyes - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets the Virgin - Read by Margaret Guroff - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 80: The Nut - Read by Maureen Freely - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 79: The Prairie - Read by David Rothenberg - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets - Read by David Piper - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun - Read by Jennie Winter - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram - Read by Richard Sabin - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head - Read by Ruth Leeney - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head - Read by Hal Whitehead - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale - Read by Susan Steinberg and Ian Bodenham - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope - Read by Kieran Phelan - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story - Read by Georgia Zildjian - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 70: The Sphynx - Read by Dorothy Cross - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 69: The Funeral - Read by Brian Patten - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 68: The Blanket - Read by Andrew Brewerton - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 67: Cutting In - Read by Mark Tosdevin - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre - Read by Chris Cook - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish - Read by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper - Read by Rick Stein - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 63: The Crotch - Read by Angela Hogg - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 62: The Dart - Read by Richard Hawley - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 61: Stubb Kills A Whale - Read by Marcia Farquhar and Jem Finer - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 60: The Line - Read by Adam Low - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 59: Squid - Read by China Miéville - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 58: Brit - Read by Benedict Cumberbatch - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth - Read by Angela Cockayne - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales - Read by Sir Christopher Frayling - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales - Read by Martin Rosenbaum - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story - Read by Joanna Hollingworth - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 53: The Gam - Read by Helen Rayner - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 52: The Albatross - Read by A L Kennedy - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout - Read by Alexis Kirke - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah - Read by Andrew Delbanco - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 49: The Hyena - Read by Nigel Larcombe-Williams - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 48: The First Lowering - Read by Tom Browne - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker - Read by Steve Carroll - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 46: Surmises - Read by Philip Dodd - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 45: The Affidavit - Read by Anthony Caleshu - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 44: The Chart - Read by Philip Gourevitch - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 43: Hark! - Read by Julie Christian Young - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale - Read by Will Self - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 41: Moby Dick - Read by Blake Morrison - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle - Read by Clive Charlton - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 39: First Night-Watch - Read by Liberty Scarlett - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 38: Dusk - Read by Jeff Lawson - http://mobydickbigread.com

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Chapter 37: Sunset - Read by Raphaella Fearns - http://mobydickbigread.com