xxi, 615 pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
OCLC
ocm09514003
Loomings -- The carpet-bag -- The spouter-inn -- The counterpane -- Breakfast -- The street -- The chapel -- The pulpit -- The sermon -- A bosom friend -- Nightgown -- Biographical -- Wheelbarrow -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- The ship -- The ramadan -- His mark -- The prophet -- All astir -- Going aboard -- Merry Christmas -- The lee shore -- The advocate -- Postscript -- Knights and squires -- Ahab -- Enter ahab; To him, stubb -- The pipe -- Queen mab -- Cetology -- The specksynder -- The cabin-table -- The mast-head -- The quarter-deck -- Sunset -- Dusk -- First night watch -- Midnight, forecastle -- Moby Dick -- The whiteness of the whale -- Hark -- The chart -- the affidavit -- surmises -- The mat-maker -- The first lowering -- The hyena -- Ahab's boat and crew -- The spirit-spout -- The albatross -- the gam -- The town-ho's story -- Monstrous pictures of whales
Less erroneous pictures of whales -- Of whales in paint, in teeth -- Brit -- Squid -- The line -- Stubb kills a whale -- The dart -- The crotch -- Stubb's supper -- The whale as a dish -- The shark massacre -- Cutting in -- The blanket -- The funeral -- The sphynx -- The Jeroboam's story -- The monkey-rope -- Stubb and flask kill a right whale -- The sperm whale's head -- The right whale's head -- The battering-ram -- The great heidelburgh tun -- Cistern and buckets -- The prairie -- The nut -- The pequod meets the virgin -- The honor and glory of whaling -- Jonah historically regarded -- Pitchpoling -- The fountain -- The tail -- The grand armada -- Schools and schoolmasters -- Fast-fish and loose-fish -- Heads or tails -- The pequod meets the rose-bud -- Ambergris -- The castaway -- A squeeze of the hand -- The cassock -- The try-works -- The lamp -- Stowing down and clearing up
The doubloon -- The pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London -- The decanter -- A bower in the arsacides -- Measurement of the whale's skeleton -- The fossil whale -- Does the whale diminish -- Ahab's leg -- The carpenter -- Ahab and the carpenter -- Ahab and starbuck in the cabin -- Quequeg in his coffin -- The Pacific -- The blacksmith -- The forge -- The gilder -- the pequod meets the bachelor -- The dying whale -- The whale watch -- The Quadrant -- The candles -- The deck -- Midnight -- the forecastle bulwarks -- Midnight aloft -- thunder and lightning -- The musket -- The needle -- The log and line -- the life-bouy -- The deck -- The pequod meets the Rachel -- The cabin -- The hat -- The pequod meets the delight -- The symphony -- The chase -- first day -- The chase -- second day -- The chase -- third day