Autor: R. D. Madison

This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville’s whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create …

While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific d …

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An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions. The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of Coop …