Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket
Subtitle: which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large spermaceti-whale, in the Pacific Ocean
By: with an account of the unparalleled sufferings of the captain and the crew
Publisher: W.B. Gilley
Published: 1821
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Sperm whale hunting; Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival; Essex (Whale-ship); Essex (Whaleship)
Other titles: China, America and the Pacific.
Notes: Source book for Melville's Moby Dick.

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Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Inscribed by Melville: Herman Melville from Judge [Lemuel] Shaw, April, 1851.

This copy has a group of blue writing-paper leaves inserted at front & back; Melville has filled up [11] p. at front & [7] p. at end with ms. notes; also inserted at front is an A.L.s. (Thos. Macy) to Lemuel Shaw; Nantucket, 4 Mar. 1851; transmitting this copy. Mounted & laid in at end are 3 newspaper accounts of the destruction of the whale ship Ann Alexander in 1850.

Imperfect: p. 123-128 wanting.