Journal of a cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the frigate United States, with notes on Herman Melville,

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Herman Melville. Monterey and naval history. The manuscripts.…”

Wreck of the whale ship essex: the complete illustrated edition : the extraordinary and distressing memoir that inspired herman melville's moby-dick / by Chase, Owen

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Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex / by Heffernan, Thomas Farel, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The Authorship and Publication of Owen Chase's Narrative ; Herman Melville ; Accounts and Borrowings -- Appendices. …”
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The loss of the ship Essex, sunk by a whale /

Table of Contents: “…The Paddack letter -- The Macy letter -- Chase's Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex -- Herman Melville's annotation of Chase's Narrative -- Boy's story -- Nickerson's "desultory sketches" -- Nickerson's letter to Lewis -- Excerpt from Ridgely's letterbook -- Excerpt from Wilkes's Autobiography -- Excerpt from Tyerman and Bennet's Journal -- Account of the loss of the Essex -- Excerpt from the journal of the Surry -- Extracts. …”

Pacific passages : an anthology of surf writing /

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Memory, mourning, landscape /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kate McLoughlin -- Designing a war museum : some reflections on representations of war and combat / Jay Winter -- The sacred names of the nation's dead : war and remembrance in revolutionary France / Joseph Clarke -- Memory, mourning and Malvern Hill : Herman Melville and the poetry of the American Civil War / Cynthia Wachtell -- Tabulating loss, entombing memory : the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre / Sarah Wagner -- Lethean landscapes : forgetting in late modern commemorative spaces / Joel David Robinson -- Morbid family pride : private memorials and Scots law / Hilary Hiram -- Memory, mourning and landscape in the Scottish mountains : discourses of wilderness, gender and entitlement in online debates on mountainside memorials / Avril Maddrell -- Seder and imagined landscape / Alana M. …”
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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics /

Table of Contents: “…Lane -- The First Pirate of the Caribbean : Christopher Columbus / Michele de Cuneo -- American Sea Rovers / Alexander Exquemelin -- Born to be Hanged / Captain Charles Johnson -- The Dutch "Pirate Admiral" / Jan Pieter Heije -- The Chinese "Pirate Admiral," / Koxinga -- Song of the Pirate / Jos, de Espronceda -- Somali Pirates Attack a Cruise Ship / Eric Paul Roorda -- Shipwrecked by Worms, Saved by Canoe : The Last Voyage of Columbus / Diego Méndez -- The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea / John Jea -- Pandora's Box / Peter Heywood -- The Real Moby-Dick / Owen Chase -- The Castaway / Herman Melville -- "Just Keep Rowing ...!" / William Hale -- Life of Poon / Anonymous -- A Three-Hour Tour Becomes a Four-Month Ordeal / Richard Van Pham -- The Asian Sea Goddess / Eric Paul Roorda -- The Hajj by Sea / Hadji Khan and Wilfrid Sparroy -- Durr Freedley's "Saints of the Sea" / Anonymous -- Missionary to Micronesia / Hiram Bingham -- The Voyage / Johann Goethe -- The Northern Sea / Mary Howitt -- The World Below the Brine / Walt Whitman -- Far Off-Shore / Herman Melville -- The Ninth Wave / Ivan Aivazovsky -- Sea Pictures / Edward Elgar -- Voyage to Montevideo / Dino Campana -- The Ballad of the Seawater / Federico García Lorca -- Surfing : A Royal Sport / Jack London -- By the Sea / Anonymous -- The Compleat Angler / Izaak Walton -- Women and Children Next : The Family Goes to Sea / Lady Brassey -- The First Solo Circumnavigation / Joshua Slocum -- The Cruise / G.B. …”
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