Foreword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari | xv
Etymology (Supplied by a late consumptive Professor) | 1
Sailing Without | 3
Headless Travels | 5
Loomings | 11
Out of Place | 12
Fishing | 13
Change | 14
Vision | 15
The Street | 16
The Chapel | 17
The Pulpit | 18
Storm and Wreck | 19
A Bosom Friend | 20
Ideas | 21
Mapping Oceans | 22
Houses in Houses | 23
Nantucket | 24
Chowder | 25
Whös on the Ship? | 26
Intermittent Fasting | 27
Sea Living | 28
The Prophet | 29
Tomorrow! | 30
Going Aboard | 31
Merry Christmas | 32
The Lee Shore | 33
The Encounter | 34
Oil | 35
Politics | 36
Knights and Squires | 37
[ . . . ] | 38
A Scene on the Quarterdeck | 39
No Pipe | 40
Queen Mab | 41
No Book | 42
Lines of Succession | 43
Dinner | 44
The Mast-Head | 45
A Spring Rose | 46
Sunset | 47
Dusk | 48
First Night Watch | 49
Forecastle¿Midnight | 50
Moby-Dick | 51
Great White Evil God | 52
Devils Who Never Sleep | 53
The Chart | 54
The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws | 55
Not Seasick | 56
Weavers | 57
The First Lowering | 58
Testament | 59
Fedallah | 60
The Spirit-Spout | 61
The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross | 62
How to Speak Whale | 63
The Town Hös Story | 64
Monstrous Pictures of Whales | 65
Cetacean Errors | 66
Whale Rock | 67
Blue Dreams | 68
Squid | 69
The Line | 70
Stubb Kills a Whale | 71
Authorities | 72
Wooden Bodies | 73
Eating Whale | 74
Cannibal Old Me | 75
Two Shark Stories | 76
Whales and Other Humans | 77
In the Whalelight | 78
Whalefall | 79
The Whale¿s Head | 80
No Tail on the Jeroboam | 81
The Monkey-rope | 82
Brothers in Arms | 83
The Sperm Whale¿s Head | 84
The Right Whale¿s Head | 85
I.¿s Blue | 86
Let the Oil Out! | 87
Birthing Tash | 88
Read It If You Can | 89
A Hill of Snow | 90
The P. Meets the V. | 91
The Honor and Glory of Whaling | 92
Jonah Historically Regarded | 93
Just a Little Farther | 94
How We Breathe | 95
The Tail | 96
The Grand Armada | 97
A Love Story | 98
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish | 99
Heads or Tails | 100
The P. Meets the Rose Bud | 101
Ambergris | 102
The Castaway | 103
A Squeeze of the Hand | 104
The Cassock | 105
The State of the Ship | 106
The Lamp | 107
The Search | 109
No Doubloon | 110
The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London | 112
The Next Voyage | 112
Inside the Skeleton | 113
Measurements of the Whale¿s Skeleton | 114
The Fossil Whale | 115
Save the Whales! | 116
Glass Foot | 117
The Carpenter | 118
What the Carpenter Says | 119
Starbuck in the Cabin | 120
Q. in His Coffin | 121
The Pacific | 122
The Blacksmith | 123
Making a Harpoon | 124
Calenture | 125
The P. Meets the Bachelor | 126
The Dying Whale | 127
When It¿s Almost Possible to See | 128
The Quadrant | 129
Swimmer in Storm | 130
The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch | 131
Midnight¿the Forecastle Bulwarks | 132
Midnight, Aloft¿Thunder and Lightning | 133
Errors in a Book | 134
At Sea | 135
The Log and Line | 136
The Life-Buoy | 137
Coffins | 138
The P. Meets the Rachel | 139
Pip in the Cabin| 140
No Hat | 141
The P. Meets the Delight | 142
The Symphony | 143
The Chase¿First Day | 144
The Chase¿Second Day | 145
The Chase¿Third Day | 149
Epilogue | 151
A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick | 153
Acknowledgments | 173

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