How Books Got Their Titles

Moby-Dick was a real whale. In the nineteenth century sailors were in the habit of giving names to individual whales who were particularly dangerous or unkillable; among them were ‘Timor Jack’ and ‘New Zealand Tom’.

Great blog on how famous books got their titles, written for The Sunday Telegraph by Gary Dexter.

March 8th, 2009 by Pieratt

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