Following a mutiny, an encounter with savages, and cannibalization of a fellow sailor, the novel ends unresolved with the mutineer Dirk Peters and title character drifting in a canoe and encountering a "great, white figure.
Inspired by the review of a J.N. Reynolds pamphlet in the Southern Literary Messenger, fifty-nine years after it was first published, the mysterious ending of this work was explained in a sequel in which Captain Len Guy treks to Tsalal Island to find his lost brother. Augustus Barnard arranges for the title character to stowaway on the ship Grampus. Following a mutiny, an encounter with savages, and cannibalization of a fellow sailor, the novel ends unresolved with the mutineer Dirk Peters and title character drifting in a canoe and encountering a "great, white figure." Continued in Sphinx of the Ice Fields by Jules Verne, --for 10 points-- name this work by Edgar Allan Poe that tells of the misadventures of a namesake mariner.
Inspired by the review of a J.N. Reynolds pamphlet in the Southern Literary Messenger, fifty-nine years after it was first published, the mysterious ending of this work was explained in a sequel in which Captain Len Guy treks to Tsalal Island to find his lost brother.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket