CONTENTS

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Prologue
  3. Chapter 1 Who Shot Owen Coffin?
  4. Chapter 2 Damage Control
  5. Chapter 3 Nickerson and Lewis: Selling the Tale
  6. Chapter 4 Lightning Strikes Twice: The Two Brothers
  7. Chapter 5 Night Watchman
  8. Chapter 6 The Real Ahab
  9. Coda A Whale’s Motives
  10. Notes
  11. Index
  12. Illustrations