Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex /
A documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale. This book contains a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that directly inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.
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Middletown, CT : [New York] :
Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Columbia University Press,
[1981]
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| Edition: | [First edition.] |
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Table of Contents:
- Owen Chase
- Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket, by Owen Chase
- Ne Cede Malis
- Next Lowering. Owen Chase after the Essex ; George Pollard, Jr. ; The Other Survivors
- 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 Bennet ; C : 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.
