Author: Thomas BealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas BealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale: with an account of the rise and progress of the fishery, etc
Author: Thomas BEALE (Surgeon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale, with an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Fishery ...
Author: Thomas BealeA few observations on the natural history of the sperm whale, with an account of the rise and progress of the fishery, and of the modes of pursuing, killing, and cutting in that animal, with a list of its favorite places of resort
Author: Thomas Beale (d.1849)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm Whale
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale, with an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Fishery, and of the Modes of Pursuing, Killing, and "cutting In" that Animal, with a List of Its Favorite Places of Resort. By Thomas Beale, Surgeon, Demonstrator of Anatomy to the Eclectic Society of London; Assistant Surgeon to St. John's British Hospital; and Medical Assistant to the Royal Humane Society
Author: A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas Beale (surgeon)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Few Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas BealeThe Natural History of the Sperm Whale ...
Author: Thomas Beale (surgeon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Essex and the Whale
Author: R. D. MadisonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex—now a major motion picture. But how exactly did Melville transmute the historic tragedy of the Essex into what is arguably the "Great American Novel"? Here, for the first time, R.D. Madison collects together Melville's personal "library" of whaling and whale-lore into a single volume and presents these primary sources in a way that readers can readily see how a horrific whaling tragedy became a literary masterpiece. But where did Moby-Dick begin? Prompted by sailor-author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Melville supplemented his own firsthand experience as a whaleman in the South Pacific with "libraries" of books that he "swum through" to create his whaling masterpiece. Scholars and lay readers alike have long wondered how he did it, and over the past 60 years, a very tight theory of inspiration and creation has emerged. It is very likely wrong. This volume gathers together for the first time all of the main texts that Melville encountered, including the accounts of the unique sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale that provided the climax for Moby-Dick. Melville scholar R. D. Madison examines what critics have said about Melville's response to the sinking and offers the challenging thesis that Melville did not even begin the book at all until spurred on by Dana in the spring of 1850.
Trying Leviathan
Author: D. Graham BurnettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.