“A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.” H.D. #Thoreau, A Week

I then reminded them of the fact, that as long as we kept the sea, there was always some prospect of encountering a friendly sail; in which event, our solicitude would be over. #MelvilleMonday 🐳

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. A sort of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes, two of them, one for Queequeg, 1+

Trimming the sails by British marine artist Montague Dawson Born in 1890, he was a keen sailor who served in the Royal Navy during WW1. His first hand experience of ships and the sea gives his work a gritty authenticity. #Tallships #Ageofsail #Sea

#Starbuck dachte noch lange über den Unterschied zwischen Kurs nehmen und Kurs halten nach. #MelvilleMonday

Happy #MelvilleMonday

Happy #MelvilleMonday

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 A Melville shelf (In need of expansion)

#MobyDick C15 #AmericanReadalong 🐳 Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming

Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. Moby-Dick, Chapter 3. #MelvilleMonday

#MelvilleMonday ⚓️ and Labor Day🌾 "But that’s the everlasting rub—oh, who can cure an empty pocket?" – Melville (Redburn, Ch. 62) The Sailor's Home, Liverpool, 1846.

My Melville shelf, pretty happy with it. #MelvilleMonday 🐳

“I prefer not to,” he replied in a flute-like tone. #MelvilleMonday 🐳

#MelvilleMonday

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

Unread, probably, but good press nevertheless! 👍👍 PIERRE, OR THE AMBIGUITIES by Herman Melville earns a sentence in the Toronto Globe for August 7, 1852: "Any book by this author must always be welcome." Found on Newspapers.com. Newspapers.com