Retold for students of English, this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is an upper intermediate-level Macmillan Reader adventure. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to pursue and kill the vicious white whale Moby Dick, and no one can stop him. American English.