| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| 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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chase, Owen.
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Chase, Owen. |
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Essex (Whaleship)
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Essex (Whaleship) |
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Chase, Owen. |
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Essex (Whaleship) |
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Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. |
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Survival.
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Survival. |
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Whalers (Persons) -- United States -- Biography.
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Whalers (Persons) |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Chase, Owen.
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Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heffernan, Thomas Farel, 1933- Stove by a whale. 1st ed. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press ; [New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press, ©1981 (DLC) 80021603 |
| ISBN |
9780819573773 (electronic book) |
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0819573779 (electronic book) |
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0819550523 |
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9780819550521 |
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