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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
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 Bennet
C: 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
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