Moby-Dick — The Doubloon

A gold coin nailed to the mast, an oath drunk from harpoon-sockets, and the white whale named at last.

Retold for sleep from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, first published in 1851 and long out of copyright. The story is Melville's; every sentence here is our own.

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Charles Holt
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Charles Holt
Deep, slow, spacious

Low, slow and spacious — a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.

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About this session

Moby-Dick — The Doubloon is a sleep story from Salūs Rooms — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.

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