Call Me Ishmael (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis: Excerpt from Call Me Ishmael Herman Melville was born in New York August 1, 1819, and on the 12th of tha t month the Essex, a well-found Whaler of 238 tons, sailed from Nantucket w ith 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 a nd provided for two years and a half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Book s uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, prese rving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the age d copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish o r missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair th e vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remai n are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. About the Author: Charles Olson (1910-1970), an avant garde poet, literary critic, and literary theorist, is the author of The Maximus Poems, The Distances, The Human Universe and Other Essays, and In Cold Hell, in Thicket.

Product Info

ISBN: 0259751693

ISBN-13: 9780259751694

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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