The Whale and His Captors; or, The Whaleman's Adventures Hardback
by Henry T. Cheever, Mark Bousquet
Edited by Robert D. Madison
Part of the Seafaring America series
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The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s. Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America's classic novels.
After exhausting other whaling sources-Beale, Scoresby, Bennett, and Browne-Melville turned to Cheever for chapter titles and organization as well as passages that helped shape, define, and elucidate his great work. This is the first scholarly edition of The Whale and His Captors, accompanied by an introduction and apparatus that clearly elucidates Cheever's treatise on whaling and demonstrates how his writings contributed both to the course of American literature and to our burgeoning understanding of literature's engagement with the natural world. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 21 illus.
- Publisher:University Press of New England
- Publication Date:12/06/2018
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- ISBN:9781512602647
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 21 illus.
- Publisher:University Press of New England
- Publication Date:12/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781512602647
