Leviathan or The Whale

Melville, whaling, and the
Charles W. Morgan;
Kathy Reed of Edgewater for her accomodation. Nantucket: Nantucket Historical Association, Whaling Museum and Research Library. Western Massachusetts : Louise McCue and Bobbie-Anne Fachini at Arrowhead, Kathleen Reilly and Ann-Marie Harris at the Berkshire Atheneum. Connecticut: Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah for their company climbing Monument Mountain; William Peterson and the staff of Mystic Seaport Museum. New York: Jack Puttnam for his tour around Melville’s Manhattan; Thomas Farel Heffernan, Dan and Lucia Woods Lindley; and Richard Melville Hall for tea and directions to Herman Melville Place. Maine: Alex Carleton, for his aesthetic inspiration, and all at Rogues Gallery, especially Daniel Pepice. Newfoundland: Hal Whitehead, for sharing a little of his work on sperm whales.
    Andalucia: Gabriel Orozco for a tour of his tattooed whale; José María Galán and the Museo Marino, Matalascañas. Azores: Serge Viallelle for introducing me to the sperm whales; Alexandra Viallelle, João Quadresma and Marco Avila and all at Espaço Talassa, Lajes do Pico; Macolm Clarke for his commentary on
Physeter and
their prey; Dorothy Clarke; Antonio Domingos Avila; Museu dos Baleerios, Pico; Museo da Industria Baleeira, São Roque. A special thanks to the Azorean government and the regional secretary for the environment for licencing my close encounter with
Physeter macrocephalus
.
    London: Richard Sabin, for his patient answers to my many questions; Liz Evans-Jones at the Standings Project; Stephen Roberts, Becci Cousins, Katie Andersen, Polly Tucker, Helen Sturge and the staff of the Natural History Museum and its archives; Lisa Le Feuvre and Helen Whiteoak at the National Maritime Museum; James Rawlinson, Richard Mortimer, Diane Gibbs and Christine Reynolds at Westminster Abbey Museum and Library; the staff of the Guildhall Library and the British Library; Gilbert and George, Jeremy Millar, Tim Marlow, Honey Luard, Anthony Reynolds, Michael Prodger, Giles Foden, Boyd Tonkin, Simon Callow, Reed Wilson, Madeleine Groves, Michael Holden, Julia Harrison, Nicholas Redman, Peter David, Steve Deput, Sam Goonetillake, Namvula Rennie, and Emma Matthews.
    Yorkshire : Sir John Chichester-Constable, David Connell and Gary Dewson at Burton Constable Hall; Dr Michael Boyd; and particular thanks to Arthur Credland and the Hull Maritime Museum; Whitby Museum. Oxford : Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Art; Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Clive Hurst and the staff of the Rare Books and Printed Ephemera, the Bodleian Library. Devon : Nigel Larcombe-Williams, Jake Luffman . Hampshire : Peter Leslie, Jude James, Colin Speedie, Clare Moore.
    Southampton: Sophia Scott and Alison Kendrick at HM Maritime and Coastguard Agency; Southampton City Library; Tina Jones; Andy and Rob, Sholing Cycle Centre; Fr Bill Wilson, Katherine Anteney, Jonny Hannah, and Pamela and Ron Ashurst. I’d also like to thank to Krishna Scott, Jon Wynne-Tyson, D J. Taylor, Jonathan Gordon and all those who have contributed to a story which, I hope, will have a happier ending than its beginning.
    Philip Hoare,
Southampton, July 2008

Index

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    Aberdeen, Scotland
    Acushnet, river
    Acushnet
, whale-ship
    Adams, John
    Adler, G. J.
    Aimwell
, whale-ship
    Albany, New York
    Albion
, whale-ship
    Alcott, Bronson
    Aldersgate, London
    Alderson, Christopher
    Alderson, James
    Aleutian Islands
    Aldershot, Hants
    Alexander Whaling Company
    Allardyce, Sir William
    Allen, Solomon
    ambergris
    Ambulocetus natans
    Amelia
, whale-ship
    American Civil War
    American Museum, New York
    American Museum of Natural History, New York
    American Sunday School Movement
    American Wars of Independence
    Amsterdam
    Andromeda
    Ann Alexander
, whale-ship
    Antarctica
    Antonio’s, restaurant
    Anthropocene
    apartheid
    aquaria: Coney Island; Brighton; New York; San Diego; Seattle; Westminster; Windsor
    ARCHEŒCETES –
see also separate species;
    Arctic –
see also
Barren Grounds, Ultima Thule, North Pole);
    Aristotle
    Arrowhead; described;
    arthritis
    asthma
    Astor House Hotel, Manhattan
    Auden, W.H., ‘Herman Melville’
    auks
    Aurora
, whale-ship
    Avellar, Al
    Avellar family
    Avila, Antonio Domingos
    Avila, Marco
    The Azores; geography; history; whaling