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James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
The following is a list of books by John C. Maxwell. His books have sold more than twenty million copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller list. Some of his works have been translated into fifty languages. [1] By 2012, he has sold more than 20 million books. [2] In his book, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn, Maxwell claims that ...
Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.
His most recent collections are One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems and Pluto. His work appears in several anthologies of the best of 20th century poetry. In 1999 Maxwell left Faber and Faber as a result of editorial disagreement over his poem Time's Fool, and his work has since been published by Picador in the UK.
And Jack was swept into the sea and swallowed by a whale. CHORUS Oh, the whale went straight for Baffin Bay, 'bout ninety knots an hour, And every time he'd blow a spray he'd send it in a shower; Oh, now, says Jack unto himself, I must see what he's about, He caught the whale all by the tail and turned him inside out. CHORUS
'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows.
The original text of the work was found in the belly of a fish. On June 23, 1626, scholar and theologian Dr. Joseph Mede (or Mead) of Christ's College, Cambridge , was walking through Cambridge 's market, when a fishwife found a small thin book (size sextodecimo ) wrapped in sailcloth inside the stomach of a codfish caught at King's Lynn .