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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (26 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141023511
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141023519
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure. So he stows away on a whaling ship bound for the South Pacific. But he gets more excitement than he could ever have imagined when, soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. As the leaderless ship sails deep into high southern latitudes, the ravenous sailors begin to regret their treachery. Storms overwhelm the decks, and the nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It seems they are being punished for their sins.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "I feared I should not be able to write from mere memory", 13 Feb 2006
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Professing to be the true account of a sea voyage made by Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe records the strange, unbelievable events aboard the ship Grampus and on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic six months later. Published in 1850, but professing to have taken place in 1827, Poe's fictionalized narrative, supposedly penned by Pym, a young man from Nantucket, describes Pym's experiences beginning in July of that year. Stowed away in the hold of the ship by his friend Augustus Barnard, whose father is captain of the Grampus, Pym endures more than a week, alone and in almost total darkness, before he discovers that a mutiny has occurred onboard.

Macabre details of ghastly deaths and unrelieved bloodlust, the massacre of the crew, and the casting adrift of the captain presage even more gory events. A counter mutiny, equally bloody, leaves only four men alive on the Grampus. A gale, a gruesome death ship which passes them, another ship which does not see them, circling sharks, and the deaths of two of the survivors leave only two men alive when the brig overturns.

The second half of the account details the trip of discovery taken by Pym and the other survivor, along with the English crew which rescues them, south to the "Antarctic Sea," a voyage in wh