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UK: A model for Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). 'Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific', Jeremiah N Reynolds (1799-1858), Cameron & Ferguson, London and Glasgow,1870. UK reprint of the first,1839 USA edition

Jeremiah N Reynolds (17991858) was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) and his 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, 'Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific', influenced Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).
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UK: A model for Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). 'Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific', Jeremiah N Reynolds (1799-1858), Cameron & Ferguson, London and Glasgow,1870. UK reprint of the first,1839 USA edition
Jeremiah N Reynolds (17991858) was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) and his 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, 'Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific', influenced Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).
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29.0 x 43.0 cm | 11.4 x 16.9 in (300 dpi)