"Suppose we worked something out on the line of Moby Dick?
"Sjambak"
John Holbrook Vance
I did turn to Oscar Fujisawa with a quotation I remembered from Moby Dick, the book he'd named his ship from.
"Four-Day Planet"
Henry Beam Piper
Omoo followed in 1847, Moby Dick, or the White Whale, a powerful sea story, in 1852, and Israel Potter in 1855. He was a very unequal writer, but occasionally showed considerable power and originality.
"A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature"
John W. Cousin