A. M. Handley journal

Published Jan 15, 2013 by

ECU Contributor

Filed under:

diaries
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
Imported

Source: Handley, A. M., Journal, East Carolina Manuscript collection #1064.1.a

Staff Person: Ken Harbit

Description:

One of the great classics of American literature, and a treasure of world literature, Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was published for the first time on October 18, 1851. It tells the story of the sailor Ishmael and his adventures on the whaler Pequod, led by Captain Ahab who leads his crew on a hunt for the whale Moby-Dick.

You can read a first hand account about what shipboard life was like during Melville’s time, and probably the inspiration for much of his writing, in the A. M. Handley journal located in Joyner Library’s Digital Collections; call number 1064.1.a