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In addition to Herman Melville's own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two real events served as the genesis for his <i>Moby Dick</i>. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship <i>Essex</i> in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America.<br/><br/> The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity.
In addition to Herman Melville's own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two real events served as the genesis for his <i>Moby Dick</i>. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship <i>Essex</i> in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America.<br/><br/> The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity.
Jeremiah N Reynolds (1799–1858) was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) and his 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, 'Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific', influenced Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).
Jonah or Jonas (Arabic: Yunus) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.<br/><br/> The biblical story of Jonah is repeated, with a few notable differences, in the Qur'an.
Jonah (Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Modern Yona Tiberian Yônā; dove; Arabic: يونس‎, Yūnus or يونان, Yūnān; Greek/Latin: Ionas) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.<br/><br/> The Biblical story of Jonah is repeated in the Qur'an, where Jonah is identified as Yunus or Yunan.
Miniature of a whale and a sailing boat, from a Bestiary, England, 13th century, British Library, Harley MS 4751, fol. 69r.
Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869) was the successor and pupil of ukiyo-e print-master Hiroshige, inheriting his name after his death in 1858. He married his master's daughter, though they divorced in 1865, after which he began using the name Kisai Rissho. His work is so similar to his master's that most scholars often confuse their prints.