Contents

Prologue

Hesperides. A Dream in Letter Form

I Shipwrecks, Flotsam, Crossings, Distances

Small Blue Whales Strolling about the Azores. Fragment of a Story

Other Fragments

Antero de Quental. A Life

II Of Whales and Whalemen

High Seas

The Woman of Porto Pim. A Story

Postscript. A Whale’s View of Man

Appendix

A Map, a Note, a Few Books