Green Shadows, White Whale

Green Shadows, White Whale

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, Soft science fiction
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1992
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	271
ISBN	0-394-57878-3
OCLC	25095626
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3503.R167 G75 1992

Green Shadows, White Whale is a 1992 novel by Ray Bradbury. It gives a fictionalized account of his journey to Ireland in 1953-1954 to write a screen adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick with director John Huston. Bradbury has said^[where?] he wrote it after reading actress Katharine Hepburn's account of filming The African Queen with Huston in Africa. The title itself is a play on Peter Viertel's novel White Hunter, Black Heart, which is also about Huston.

Bradbury considers Green Shadows to be the culmination of thirty-five years of short stories, poems, and plays that were inspired by his stay in Ireland.^{[citation needed]} As with most of his previous short-story collections, including The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles, many of the short stories were originally published elsewhere and modified slightly for publication in the novel.^[1]