Stove by a whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

Owen Chase -- Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex of Nantucket / by Owen Chase -- Ne cede malis -- Next lowering -- Telling the story.;Appendices -- Herman Melville's annotations and markings in his own copy of Owen Chase's narrative -- The story of the Essex shipwreck presented in Captain Pollard's interview with George Bennet -- Thomas Chapple's account of the loss of Essex -- March 7, 1821, letter of Commodore Ridgely to the secretary of the navy -- The Paddack letter on the rescue of Captain Pollard and Charles Ramsdell -- Report of the Essex shipwreck and rescue in the Syndney Gazette, June 9, 1821 -- Table of islands from Bowditch's Navigator -- Chase geneology.