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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
THE ESSEX NARRATIVES
FIRST REPORTS
1. The Paddack Letter
2. The Macy Letter
THE MATE’S STORY
1. Chase’s Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
2. Herman Melville’s Annotation of Chase’s Narrative
THE BOY’S STORY
1. Nickerson’s “Desultory Sketches”
2. Nickerson’s Letter to Lewis
THE CAPTAIN’S STORY
1. Excerpt from Ridgely’s Letterbook
2. Excerpt from Wilkes’s Autobiography
3. Excerpt from Tyerman and Bennet’s Journal
THE BOATSTEERER’S STORY
1. An Account of the Loss of the Essex
2. Excerpt from the Journal of the Surry
EXTRACTS: MEMORIES AND APOCRYPHA
Notes
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