Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex / Thomas Farel Heffernan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heffernan, Thomas Farel, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Survival.

Whalers (Persons)--United States--Biography.

Whalers (Persons).

Essex (Whaleship).

Chase, Owen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press ; [New York] : distributed by Columbia University Press, c1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8195-7377-9

OCLC:

805013622