herman melville images from the author’s life whaling, & moby dick
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Herman Melville
Images from the author’s life Whaling, & Moby Dick
The early years
Allan Melvill
Letters to an aunt
The high seas
Melville’s compass
Elizabeth Shaw Melville
Melville children
Pittsfield home
Literary career
Moby Dick – Masterpiece and mess
Captain Ahab
Queequeq
The Pequod
Moby Dick and the Whaling Industry
First American Whaling art
Typical whaling captains
Whaling ships and barrels of oil
Whaleboat
The Ann Anderson – truth makes better fiction
Images of The Pequod
Melville’s book royalties
Elizabeth and Herman – 1885
Writing for survival
Melville obituary
Melville stamp - 1984