Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Devil’s Advocate	15
II	Ghosts	33
III	Parents and Early Years	53
IV	A Substitute for Pistol and Ball	77
V	Discoveries on Two Continents	98
VI	Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters	113
VII	Blubber and Mysticism	128
VIII	Leviathan	153
IX	The Pacific	170
X	Man-Eating Epicures—The Marquesas	194
XI	Mutiny and Missionaries—Tahiti	215
XII	On Board a Man-of-War	233
XIII	Into the Racing Tide	250
XIV	Across the Atlantic Again	283
XV	A Neighbour of Hawthorne’s	305
XVI	The Great Refusal	334
XVII	The Long Quietus	349
	Bibliography	385
	Index of Names	391

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