Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific Ryan Thacker even at the risk of

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Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific Ryan Thacker even at the risk ofJeremiah N. Reynolds (1799 1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839,