Call Me Ishmael
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: October 1967
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780224612708
First sentence: Herman Melville was born in New York August 1, 1819, and on the 12th of that month the Essex, a well-found whaler of 238 tons, sailed from Nantucket with George Pollard, Jr. as captain, Owen Chase and Matthew Joy mates, 6 of her complement of 20 men Negroes, bound for the Pacific Ocean, victualled and provided for two years and a half.