Excerpt from Call Me Ishmael 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important ...
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Excerpt from Call Me Ishmael 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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