The Iron Way: A Narrative of Crisis (Paperback) by John Solomon Bain

An English Professor has everything he has ever worked for: a nice house, a respected position at a college, and an adoring wife and kids. Despite this, he is deeply unhappy and all of his accomplishments seem meaningless to him. A passage in Moby Dick causes him to strike in a new direction, determined to find purpose at any cost. He soon finds that he must cast much overboard in his pursuit of the white whale...