Moby-Dick, The First Lowering
Boats over the side for the first time, spray, silence, and the long pull across open water.
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
Deep, slow, spacious
Low, slow and spacious, a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.
About this session
Moby-Dick, The First Lowering is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.