The adventures and tragedies of Moby Dick will echo in three different continents as the New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a mini reading marathon of the Portuguese language adaption of Herman Melville’s legendary novel on Saturday, Jan. 3.

“The Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon, like the full reading in English, is a fun, engaging way to start a new year with a collective of culture and literacy enthusiasts,” said Robert C. Rocha Jr., the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Associate Curator of Science and Research, who is coordinating the event. “The exciting bonus for those of us participating in this mini-marathon is that we connect with many other Portuguese-speaking sites across the Atlantic.”

Starting at 2 p.m., there will be simultaneous readings in the Whaling Museum’s Cook Memorial Theater, mainland Portugal, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde of excerpts from an abridged version in Portuguese of Melville’s novel, using the adaptation created by Tiago Patri?cio.

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