{"id":222,"date":"2012-02-20T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=222"},"modified":"2022-06-23T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:51:00","slug":"carlisle-henry-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/c\/carlisle-henry-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlisle, Henry Coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Dennis Berthold<\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n

CARLISLE, HENRY COFFIN (1926-2011). Born in San Francisco, Henry Coffin Carlisle served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946, earned a B.A. and M.A. at Stanford University in 1950 and 1953, and entered the book trade as an editor in New York City. He now lives in San Francisco and maintains a summer home on Nantucket.<\/p>\n

He began writing nautical fiction with Voyage to the First of December<\/em> (1972), which retells the story of the 1842 Somers<\/em> mutiny from the perspective of the ship’s surgeon, Robert Leacock. The novel explores the event’s psychological undercurrents and sympathizes with the three men who were precipitately executed.<\/p>\n

The Jonah Man<\/em> (1984, repub. 2000) is a fictional autobiography of George Pollard, the Nantucket whaleman who captained the Essex<\/em> when it was rammed by a whale in 1820. Along with part of his crew, he escaped in a whaleboat, where he survived by resorting to cannibalism before he was rescued by another ship. His next voyage also ended in shipwreck, forever marking him as a doomed man, a “Jonah.” The Essex<\/em> disaster inspired the final chapters of Moby-Dick<\/em> (1851) and a short section of Clarel<\/em> (1876), where Herman Melville characterizes Pollard as a Jonah. Carlisle’s novel mentions both sources. By presenting Pollard’s experiences autobiographically, Carlisle adds psychological and spiritual depth to the story, along with credible descriptions of life at sea and in nineteenth-century Nantucket.<\/p>\n

Voyage to the First of December<\/em> (1972)<\/p>\n

Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jonah Man <\/em>(1984)<\/p>\n

Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

keywords: white, male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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