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Author | : Jeremiah N. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Sicpress.com |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2013-04-06 |
Genre | : Sperm whale |
ISBN | : 9780615795942 |
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Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.
Author | : Jeremiah N. Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2016-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3736403046 |
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". "Call me Ishmael" is one of world literature's most famous opening sentences.
Author | : Jeremiah N. Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Mocha Dick was the name 19th-century sailors gave to a notorious sperm white whale often encountered in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century. Herman Melville drew on this story in his classic novel "Moby-Dick."
Author | : Brian Heinz |
Publisher | : Creative Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781568462424 |
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"A tour de force of design, story and illustration." - Kirkus Starred Review In 1839, Herman Melville was among the New Yorkers who thrilled to a magazine account of a white sperm whale's attacks on whaling ships. That whale was named Mocha Dick, but 12 years later, he would be immortalized in fiction as Moby-Dick. Believed to have been active from 1810 to 1859, Mocha Dick was infamous for the ferocity of his retaliations against those who attempted to capture him. From the first recorded encounter near the South American island of Mocha till the fatal harpoon blow, Mocha Dick was a legend in his own time. In language befitting a sea lore, author Brain Heinz describes characteristic episodes of the great whale's life, as illustrator Randall Enos animates the tale in a textured style evocative of scrimshaw.
Author | : Tim Severin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cannibalism in literature |
ISBN | : 9780349112336 |
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Herman Melville's novel MOBY DICK immortalised the concept of a battling white sperm whale, but did such a creature really exist? Acclaimed explorer and writer Tim Severin travelled to the islands of the Pacific to find out. From Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago to Pamilacan and Tonga, Severin compares myth with reality in a fascinating journey of discovery. Along the way he investigates the real extent of Melville's whaling experience, and unearths other potential sources for his famous story; encounters the extraordinary whale-jumpers, who even now make their living by leaping on the backs of whales to ram home their spears; and observes a retired harpooner re-enact the curious ballet of a kill -- transporting himself to his youth in the process, like a shaman from a forgotten age. Superb travel writing combined with personal and historical anecdote make this a hugely enjoyable and enlightening exploration of one of the ocean's enduring myths.
Author | : John N. REYNOLDS |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : J. M. Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Mocha Dick was a notorious white sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean near the island of Mocha off the coast of Chile. It was reportedly first encountered in 1810 and survived many attempts by whalers to kill it before being eventually taken in 1838, as described in this account published in The Knickerbocker by American author and explorer, Jeremiah Reynolds. Mocha Dick was one of the inspirations for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. The story can be found beginning on page 377.
Author | : Thomas Nickerson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101661658 |
Download The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic. This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393066665 |
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A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.