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Leviathan or The Whale

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by Philip Hoare

Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan

  Bartley James

  Bartley William

  Baseheart, Richard

  Basilosaurus cetoides

  basking sharks

  Basques

  Battersea, London

  Battersea Bridge

  The Battery, Manhattan

  Bay of Biscay

  Beagle, ship

  BEAKED WHALES (ziphiids); described; Arnoux’s (Berardius arnuxii), northern bottlenose, (Hyperoodon ampullatus); Cuvier’s (Ziphius cavirostris), Sowerby’s (Mesoplodon bidens); strap-toothed (Mesoplodon layardi)

  Beale, Thomas; background, voyages, to Burton Constable, dies; Natural History of the Sperm Whale; Melville acquires;

  Bearpark, Arthur F.

  Beaver, Harold

  Beaver, whale-ship

  Bedford Square, London

  BELUGA WHALE (Delphinapterus leucas), described, in captivity; hunted; stray; military use of;

  Bennett, Frederick

  Bentley, Richard

  Beowulf

  Bequia, Caribbean

  Bering Sea

  Berkshire County Eagle

  Berkshires, Mass

  Berlin

  Berwick, Scotland

  Berzin, Alexander

  Beston, Henry: The Outermost House

  Beverwijk, Netherlands

  The Bible; see also Genesis, Jonah, Job Bicknell, Elhanan (1788-1861)

  Bigelow, Jacob

  Birmingham, England

  Bishop of Durham, Prince Palatine, Richard Trevor

  Bishop of St Albans, Thomas Legh Claughton

  The Black Death

  Blackfish – see PILOT WHALE

  Blackfriars Bridge

  Blackpool, Lancs

  Blackwall Tunnel

  The Black Whale

  Blake, William

  The Blessing of the Fleet

  The Blitz

  Blue Posts, tavern, London

  Blue Whale (Balænoptera musculus); hunted; recovering;

  Board of Trade

  Bond Street, Manhattan

  Bonin Islands

  Boston, Mass

  Boston Entry buoy

  Boston, Absalom F.

  Boston Harbor

  Boston Tea Party

  Botany Bay, New South Wales

  BOTTLENOSE WHALE

  BOWHEAD WHALE (Balæna mysticetus)(Greenland whale); described;

  Bowdoin College, Maine

  Boyd, Michael

  Boylston, Zabdiel

  Bradbury, Ray

  Bradford, Yorks

  Bradford, Marlboro

  Bradford, Melvin O.

  Brannon, Philip: The Picture of Southampton

  Bremen

  Brendan the Navigator

  Brewster, Cape Cod

  Bridges, David

  Bridlington, Yorks

  Brighton, Sussex

  Brighton Aquarium

  British Encyclopædia

  Bristol, Somerset

  The British Library

  Broad River, Carolina

  Broadway, Manhattan

  Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights

  Brontë, Patrick

  The Bronx

  Brook Farm

  Brooklyn Bridge

  Brooks Pharmacy, New Bedford

  Brothers Grimm

  Brown, Henry

  Brueghel, Pieter

  Brussels

  BRYDE’S WHALE (Balænoptera edeni)

  Buckland, Francis

  Buddhism

  buffalo

  Bullen, Frank; The Cruise of the Cachalot

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist

  Burke, Edmund

  Burton Constable Hall

  Burton, Robert: Anatomy of Melancholy Byron, Lord

  Calcutta

  Calman, TW

  Calvinism

  Cambridge, England

  Cambridge Philosophical Society, canoas

  Cape Ann, Mass

  Cape Cod, Mass; described and history of

  Cape Cod Bay

  Cape Cod Canal

  Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

  Cape Horn, South America

  Cape São Roque, South America

  Cape Town, South Africa

  Cape Verde Islands

  HMS Carcass

  Caribbean

  Carlyle, Thomas: Sartor Resartus

  Carter’s, outfitter’s, New Bedford

  Caspian Sea

  Castle Clinton, Manhattan

  Catholicism

  Central Park, Manhattan

  cephalopods (see also cuttlefish, squid, Giant Squid, Colossal Squid)

  cetaceans (see also WHALES, separate species), origin of name

  Cetus

  Chace, Charles

  Champion, Alexander

  Chanel

  Charing Cross, London

  Charles I

  Charles W. Morgan, whale-ship; described;

  Chase family

  Chase, Owen

  Chase, William Henry

  Chatham, Mass

  Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

  Chichester, Charles

  Chichester-Constable, John Raleigh

  Chiswick

  cholera

  Christian Dior; Dioressence

  Christianity (see also Bible, Catholicism, Calvinism, Quakers, Shakers)

  Christopher Mitchell, whale-ship

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  Clarke, Malcolm

  Clemons, Tom

  climate change

  Clinton Street, Manhattan

  Coalbrookedale

  Cock Tavern, London

  coelacanth

  cod

  Coffin family

  Coffin, Kezia

  Coffin, Tristram

  Colchester, Essex

  The Cold War

  Colnett, James

  Colonial Office

  colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)

  Colossus of Rhodes

  Colombus, Christopher

  Commercial Street, London

  Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

  Concord, Mass

  Conrad, Joseph

  Constable, Marianne (neé Chichester)

  Constable, Sir Thomas Ashton Clifford (1807-1870)

  Constable, William (1721-1791)

  Cook family

  Cook, James

  copepods

  Coney Island

  Coral, whale-ship

  cormorant

  corticotrophin

  Costa family

  County Street, New Bedford

  Coup, Zack

  Craven Street, London

  Credland, Arthur

  Creed’s of London

  Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector

  Crystal Palace, London

  Cumbrian, whale-ship

  cuttlefish

  Cuvier, Frédéric (1773-1838)

  Cuvier, Baron, Georges (1769-1832)

  HMS Dædalus

  Dagenham, Essex

  Dahl, Roald

  Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

  Dale Street, Liverpool

  Darwin, Charles

  Davis, Egerton Y

  Davis Straits

  Davis, W.M.: Nimrod of the Sea

  Defoe, Daniel

  De Groot, Pat

  De Kay, J.E.

  Delia, packet-ship

  Delumba, Mark

  Dennis, Cape Cod

  De Poyster, Mr

  Deptford, London

  Deptford Pier

  Dewhurst, Henry: Natural History of the Cetacea

  diabetes

  Dickens, Charles

  dinosaur – see also separate species;

  Diplodocus

  RRS Discovery

  RRS Discovery II

  Disney, Walt

  Docklands

  DOLPHIN; bottlenose, (Tursiops truncatus); ocean dolphins, river dolphins; Commerson’s (Cephalorhynchus commersonii), common (Delphinus delphis); Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gange
tica); Haviside’s (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii), spotted (Stenella frontalis), striped (Stenella cæruleoalba), white-beaked (Lagenorhychus albirostris), white-sided (Lagenorhychus acutus); in captivity; strandings; military use of; intelligence of; hunted

  Donne, John

  Don Miguel (sperm whale)

  Douglas, Kirk

  Douglass, Frederick, (1818-1895), Narrative of Frederick Douglass;

  Drake, Edwin L.

  Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital-ship

  Drevar, George

  D’Wolf, John

  Dublin

  Dundee

  Dundee, whale-ship

  Dunkirk

  Durban, South Africa

  Dürer, Albrecht; Melencolia

  Dusky Sound, New Zealand

  Duyckinck, Evert, (1816-1878)

  Duyckinck, George

  Eastern Harbor, Cape Cod

  Eastham, Mass

  East Newton, Yorks

  East Riding, Yorks

  Eclectic Society of London

  Edinburgh

  Edinburgh Castle, tavern, London

  Edinburgh, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of

  Edward II

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  elephant

  Elephant and Castle, London

  elephant seal

  Elizabeth I

  HRH Elizabeth II

  Eliza Swann, whale-ship

  Elking, Henry

  Ellery Epes

  Ellis Island, New York

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Emmons, Ebenezer, Report of the Mammalia

  Empress, steam tug

  Endeavour, ship

  Enderby and Sons

  Enderby, Samuel

  The English Channel

  The Enlightenment

  epilepsy

  Esk, whale-ship

  Essex, whale-ship

  Ethiopia

  European Union

  Evans-Jones, Elizabeth

  Evelyn, John

  Exeter, Devon

  Faial (Fayal), Azores

  Fairhaven, Mass

  Falkland Islands

  Falklands War

  Faroe Islands

  Faversham, Kent

  Ferreira, Dorothy

  Field, David Dudley

  Filey, Yorks

  FIN WHALE (Balænoptera physalus) (finback, finner); described, hunted; stranded; blows; identified, feeding; modern threats to; individuals: Braid, Loon;

  First World War

  Firth of Forth

  Fishguard, Wales

  Fitzgerald, F Scott: The Gr eat Gatsby

  Flamborough Head, Yorks

  Flannery Sir Fortescue

  Fleet Market, London

  Fleet Street, London

  Flipper

  Floating Chapel

  Flower, Sir William

  flying fish

  Folger family

  Folger, Timothy

  Fort Stanwix

  Fowles, John

  Foyn, Svend

  Frazier, Sir James: The Golden Bough

  Freemasonry

  Free Public Library, New Bedford

  Free Willy

  French Academy (L’Académie Francais)

  Friends of the Earth

  Frobisher, Sir Martin

  Fruitlands

  Fugitive Slave Law

  Futurism

  Fylingdales, Yorks

  Gansevoort, Peter

  Galápagos Islands

  Garbo, Greta

  Gardner, Edward

  Gardner family

  Genesis

  Genn, Leo

  George III

  Ghent, Belgium

  giant squid (Archeuteuthis dux)

  Gilbert, Sir Humphrey

  giraffe

  Givenchy

  Glasgow, Scotland

  Gloucester, Cape Ann

  Gold Rush

  Goldsmith, Oliver: Animated Nature

  Gordon, Jonathan

  Gramercy Park, Manhattan

  GRAMPUS (see also PILOT WHALE)

  Grampus Bay

  Grant, Cary

  Gravesend, Kent

  Great Exhibition

  Great Hollow, Cape Cod

  The Great Hunger

  Green, Carlos

  Greene, Richard T. (Toby)

  Greenland

  Greenland Sea

  Greenland Yards, Hull

  Greenwich, London

  Greenock, Scotland

  Greenpeace

  Grenadine Islands

  GREY WHALE (Eschrichtius robustus)

  Griffiths, Elizabeth

  Griffiths, Julia

  Grove Street, Whitby

  Grytviken, South Georgia

  Gulf of Maine

  Gulf Stream

  Gulf War, second

  Hackney Empire

  The Hague

  Haley, Nelson Cole

  Hamburg, Germany

  hawksbill turtle

  Hamlet

  Hancock, Mass

  Hanson, Kenneth O.

  Harmer, Sidney

  Harmony, whale-ship

  Harper and Brothers

  harpoons

  Harvard, Mass

  Harwich, Cape Cod

  Hashidate Maru, whale-ship

  Hawaii

  Haworth, Yorks

  Hawthorne, Julian

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, (1804-1864); background; friendship with Melville; friendship with Thoreau; consulship in Liverpool; WORKS: The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; Mosses from an Old Manse: ‘Earth’s Holocaust’, ‘Fire Worship’, ‘Young Goodman Brown’;

  Hawthorne, Rose

  Hawthorne, Sophia

  Hawthorne, Una

  Heap House, Lincs

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henkel’s, manufactory

  Henrietta, whale-ship

  herring

  Herring Cove, Provincetown

  Himalayas

  Hinduism

  Hinton, Harry

  Hiroshima

  Hispanola, ship

  Hoar, Edward

  Hoare family

  HOARE, PHILIP: born, childhood; family, mother, father, sisters, grandfather (maternal), grandfather (paternal), great-grandfather (paternal), ancestors; fear of water, dreams; sees whales in wild; seeks to explain whales et passim; and London whale; and sperm whales; TRAVELS: and Southampton; in London; to New York; to Provincetown; to New Bedford; to Nantucket; to Yorkshire; to Lincolnshire; to the Azores

  Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan

  Holderness, Yorks

  Hollywood

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holocene

  Holub, Miroslav

  Holy Land

  Homberg, Wilhelm

  Home Guard

  SS Hope, whale-ship

  Hopper, Edward

  Houqua, whale-ship

  Housatonic river

  Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster)

  Howland Great Wet Dock (Greenland Dock)

  Hubble space telescope

  Hudson, New York

  Hudson river

  Hudson, W.A.

  Huggins, William John (1781-1845); South Sea Whale Fishery

  Hull, described; whaling from

  Hull Literary and Philosophical Society

  Hull Maritime Museum,

  Humber river

  HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novæangliæ); origin of scientific name; physiology, migration, feeding; breeding; sexing; hunted; stranded; modern threats to; identified; BEHAVIOUR: diving, breeching; lobtailing; flipper slapping, singing, blows; INDIVIDUALS: Agassi, Anchor, Colt, Coral, Cygnus, Filament, Fulcrum, Ganesh, Glostick, Habenero, Meteor, Nile, Roswell, Salt, Scratch’s calf, Sockeye, Sloop, Stubb, Valley, Ventisca

  Hussey, Christopher senior

  Hussey, Christopher junior

  Hussey family

  Huston, John

  Hyannis, Mass

  Ibis, rescue boat

  icthyosaur


  Icy Glen

  iguanodon

  Illustrated Animal Encyclopædia

  Illustrated London News

  impala

  Indohyus

  Industrial Revolution

  Industry, whale-ship

  Institut d’Afrique

  insulin

  International Red Cross

  International Whaling Commission

  Inuit

  Iñupiat

  Irish Sea

  Irving, Washington

  Islam

  Island Bay, New Zealand

  Isle of Wight

  Iveson, Richard

  Jacquet, Natalie

  James, C.L.R.

  Japanese Embassy, Berlin

  JARPA, JARPN, JARPA II, Antarctic Research Programme

  jellyfish

  Jenssen, Gunder

  Jeroboam, whale-ship

  Jesus Christ

  jet

  Job

  Johnny Cake Hill

  Johnson, Amy

  Johnson, Thomas

  Jonah,

  Joranson, Eric

  Kamchatka Peninsula

  Katwijk, Netherlands

  Keadby Lincs

  Kennedy, Mrs Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

  Kent, Rockwell

  Kent, whale-ship

  Kendrick, Alison

  keratin

  Kew Bridge, London

  KILLER WHALE (Orca orcinus); in captivity; attacking sperm whales; attacking humpbacks; military use of;

  King’s Road, Chelsea

  Kircaldy Scotland

  Knickerbocker Magazine

  Koran

  kraken

  The Kremlin

  Kunitz, Stanley, ‘The Wellfleet Whale’

  Kutchicetus

  Labrador

  Lacépede, Bernard, comte de: Natural History of Whales

  Lajes do Pico

  Lancaster

  Lancing, whale-ship

  Lake District

  lamprey

  Landry, Scott

  Lansingburgh, New York

  Law and Order Party

  Lawrence, D.H., Studies in Classic American Literature

  Lawton, William

  League of Nations

  Lee-on-Solent, Hants

  Leith, Scotland

  Lenox, Mass

  Leopold, Aldo

  Liberty Island, NYC

  The Lifeguards

  Lightfoot, Mr

  Lilly, John C

  Lima, Peru

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Linnæan Society of Boston

  Linnæus, Carl

  Lisbon

  Little Humber

  Little Red Inn, Lenox

  Lively, whale-ship

  Liverpool; as whaling port

  Lloyd’s Coffee house, London

  Lobo, New Mexico

  Loch Ness monster

  London; whales in; as whaling port

  London Bridge

  London Docks

  London Hospital

  Long Island

  Long Island Sound

  Long Point, Provincetown

  Lord Hawkesbury, whale-ship

  Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de

  LSD

  Mablethorpe, Lincs

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Macaulay Thomas Babington

  Macey family

  Macey Obed; History of Nantucket

  Macey, Thomas

  Macmillan Wharf, Provincetown

  Madeira

  Mahone Bay, Halifax

  Maiden, William

  Main Street, Nantucket

 

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