NMLP P-036052 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket

Owen Chase · W. B. Gilley (New York) · 1821

Modern editions sometimes print Chase's 1821 text together with supplementary survivor accounts and transcriptions of Melville's own marginal notes on the narrative; that added apparatus is modern editorial material and does not appear in the 1821 first edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-036052 for "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket" by Owen Chase (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036052, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).