... is a travel writer who has done a dozen or so works which are styled in a similar fashion- taking historically significant explorers, voyages or novels and tracing their travels, drawing parallel's between their voyages and his own. First chapter good as it sets up Melville's motives, bias and some of the inspiration ... for Moby Dick, describing the true life events of Owen Chase's encounters with an enraged bull sperm whale, which attacked and sank his ship The ... American Frontier- "The new individualism, the violence, the brawling and the boasting, the story telling, the superstitio...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School