A “tabular iceberg” from Charles Erskine’s Twenty Years Before the Mast, his reminiscences of participating in the U.S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes.
Featured on PDR in the essay Still Farther South: Poe and Pym’s Suggestive Symmetries
In 1838, as the United States began its Exploring Expedition to the South Seas, Edgar Allan Poe published a novel that masqueraded as a travelogue. John Tresch guides us along this strange trip southward, following the pull of its unfathomable mysteries.
Also appearing in the essay…
Tabular Iceberg
Date
1890
From
Twenty Years Before the Mast
