Cover
Title page
Copyrights
Dedication
Contents
Foreword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Etymology (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Professor)
Sailing Without
Headless Travels
Loomings
Out of Place
Fishing
Change
Vision
The Street
The Chapel
The Pulpit
Storm and Wreck
A Bosom Friend
Ideas
Mapping Oceans
Houses in Houses
Nantucket
Chowder
Who's on the Ship?
Intermittent Fasting
Sea Living
The Prophet
Tomorrow!
Going Aboard
Merry Christmas
The Lee Shore
The Encounter
Oil
Politics

Knights and Squires
[ . . . ]
A Scene on the Quarterdeck
No Pipe
Queen Mab
No Book
Lines of Succession
Dinner
The Mast-Head
A Spring Rose
Sunset
Dusk
First Night Watch
Forecastle-Midnight
Moby-Dick
Great White Evil God
Devils Who Never Sleep
The Chart
The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws
Not Seasick
Weavers
The First Lowering
Testament
Fedallah
The Spirit-Spout
The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross
How to Speak Whale
The Town Ho's Story
Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Cetacean Errors
Whale Rock
Blue Dreams
Squid

The Line
Stubb Kills a Whale
Authorities
Wooden Bodies
Eating Whale
Cannibal Old Me
Two Shark Stories
Whales and Other Humans
In the Whalelight
Whalefall
The Whale's Head
No Tail on the Jeroboam
The Monkey-rope
Brothers in Arms
The Sperm Whale's Head
The Right Whale's Head
I.'s Blue
Let the Oil Out!
Birthing Tash
Read It If You Can
A Hill of Snow
The P. Meets the V.
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
Jonah Historically Regarded
Just a Little Farther
How We Breathe
The Tail
The Grand Armada
A Love Story

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Heads or Tails
The P. Meets the Rose Bud
Ambergris
The Castaway
A Squeeze of the Hand
The Cassock
The State of the Ship
The Lamp
The Search
No Doubloon
The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London
The Next Voyage
Inside the Skeleton
Measurements of the Whale's Skeleton
The Fossil Whale
Save the Whales!
Glass Foot
The Carpenter
What the Carpenter Says
Starbuck in the Cabin
Q. in His Coffin
The Pacific
The Blacksmith
Making a Harpoon
Calenture
The P. Meets the Bachelor
The Dying Whale

When It's Almost Possible to See
The Quadrant
Swimmer in Storm
The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch
Midnight-the Forecastle Bulwarks
Midnight, Aloft-Thunder and Lightning
Errors in a Book
At Sea
The Log and Line
The Life-Buoy
Coffins
The P. Meets the Rachel
Pip in the Cabin
No Hat
The P. Meets the Delight
The Symphony
The Chase-First Day
The Chase-Second Day
The Chase-Third Day
Epilogue
A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick
Acknowledgments