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Stove by a Whale : Owen Chase and the Essex /
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[New York] :
Distributed by Columbia University Press,
1981.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Owen Chase; Chapter Two: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket, by Owen Chase; Chapter Three: Ne Cede Malis; Chapter Four: Next Lowering; Owen Chase after the Essex; George Pollard, Jr.; The Other Survivors; Chapter Five: Telling the Story; The Authorship and Publication of Owen Chase's Narrative; Herman Melville; Accounts and Borrowings; Appendices; A: Herman Melville's Annotations and Markings in His Copy of Owen Chase's Narrative.
- B: The Story of the Essex Shipwreck Presented in Captain Pollard's Interview with George BennetC: Thomas Chapple's Account of the Loss of the Essex; D: March 7, 1821, Letter of Commodore Ridgely to the Secretary of the Navy; E: The ""Paddack Letter"" on the Rescue of Captain Pollard and Charles Ramsdell; F: Report of the Essex Shipwreck and Rescue in the Sydney Gazette, June 9, 1821; G: Table of Islands from Bowditch's Navigator; H: Chase Genealogy; Notes; Index; About the Author.