Herman Melville

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I questioned him concerning his father's adventure; . . . he went to his chest and handed me a complete copy . . . of the narrative of the Essex catastrophe. This was the first printed account of it I had ever seen. The reading of this wondrous story on the landless sea, and so close to the very latitude of the shipwreck, had a surprising effect upon me.

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