In 1841, ( ) went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he

In 1841, ( ) went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- hand information about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.
A、Herman Melville
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、Robert Lee Frost
D、T.S. Eliot
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：1841年，麦尔维尔前往南太平洋的一艘捕鲸船上，在那里他获得了关于后来在《白鲸》中使用的有关捕鲸的第一手资料。