Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic

by Raymond M. Weaver

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Devil’s Advocate	[15]
II	Ghosts	[33]
III	Parents and Early Years	[53]
IV	A Substitute for Pistol and Ball	[77]
V	Discoveries on Two Continents	[98]
VI	Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters	[113]
VII	Blubber and Mysticism	[128]
VIII	Leviathan	[153]
IX	The Pacific	[170]
X	Man-Eating Epicures—The Marquesas	[194]
XI	Mutiny and Missionaries—Tahiti	[215]
XII	On Board a Man-of-War	[233]
XIII	Into the Racing Tide	[250]
XIV	Across the Atlantic Again	[283]
XV	A Neighbour of Hawthorne’s	[305]
XVI	The Great Refusal	[334]
XVII	The Long Quietus	[349]
	Bibliography	[385]
	Index of Names	[391]