I'd like to meet:
Captain Ahab, Herman Melville
Music:
Songs about the sea & whaling, The Moby Dick book on tape
Books:
Moby Dick, Old Man and the Sea, Whales: Nature's Gasoline, Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale, The History of Modern Whaling, Thar She Blows: American Whaling in the Nineteenth Century, Whale Ships and Whaling, The International Politics of Whaling