reading melville that way too. st the story of the american sea captain who fetches up on a sealing ship at the end of a long expedition that the sealing is running out, that is to say they're running out of seals to kill, and greg will talk about sealing. and he's off the coast of -- where exactly? >> the coast of chile. >> chile, basically. and he sees this derelict-looking ship this a cove and approaches it. and this appears in his memoirs, and melville took the story from delano's memoir, and he expanded on it his own way. basically, the story is he went aboard the ship. he saw this ship that looked in trouble, was aware that it may be a trick, it was a pirate ship that was going to ambush him, was pretending to be derelict by the side of the road, as it were. but he went there but also thought they might need help, brought water, brought pumpkins, he was a proper new england yankee. and he went there and he went onboard and thought that what he was seeing was a ship which had run into all kinds of trouble and

because americans had trouble in britain and this is a tragic story of melville in britain. because of the uncertain status of american copyrights of american authors in britain, one thing they did to tweak the system and improve their position is publish their published their book first in britain and then in america. so you might have a better shot of getting a copyright. and melville sent moby dick to be published for and the british publisher did not include the epilogue. so if you read this book about everyone and if you don't have the epilogue you don't know that ishmael survived. so the reviews of him were just terrible. if it doesn't make any sense. how is everyone died. and this doesn't make any sense. well, in addition to violating the copyright of literary works, the american newspapers would pick up british book reviews. so even though the american publishers publish the whole moby dick, which explains everything, sort of, it certainly makes the book makes sense. even melville was the subject of having them reprinted in people at the time never found that book. t

so in other words the statue that provoked melville to think about slavery in the first place was raised by the man most immediately responsible for bringing the west africans to the americas that would inspire melville years later to write this massive. so there's ways in which that story in itself embodies the presence of slavery in the western consequence. >> a good place to call it -- thank you. [applause] >> that was fun. >> i could listen to you all might. >> you made it so much more easier. [inaudible conversations] >> for more information visit the author's website. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next on booktv. she talks about her and her husband returned from iraq and the major problems they faced we integrating into american society. kayla williams' husband returned home after receiving a serious head injury and both suffered from tts the. this is about 50 minutes. >> for salami to express our most profound regret for being late. i had an interview run late and then had the fund expense of traveling on the beltway which i think maybe sometimes more stressful than drivin

so in other words, the statue, the statue that provoked, prompted melville to think about slavery in the first place was raised by one, by man most immediately responsible for bringing the west africans to the americas that would inspire melville years later to write this masterpiece. .. just like these unbelievable connections. >> for more information visit the author's web site. >> welcome to salem, ore. booktv. located along the willamette river the city is home to the state's government, is known for its cherry industry and vineyards and is also home to the oldest university in the western united states. >> the funding of primarily catholic education in 1961, it was so crucial to head to maine. it was called the school question and everyone knew what it meant and the question about how religious should public information be and whether we should be funding non protestant alternatives to public education. not that i set out on a mission to explore the deep dark unknown corners of florida history but as i encountered these stories about slavery in oregon and the massacre and mistre

joining me captain chris curl on board the research ship melville.lso joining me is luc luca santorini of the scrips oceanographic institute. captain explain in your experience the difficulty of these waters and a search this size. >> well, the difficulty in general is connected with how objects disperse in the water. so the the more time goes by, the more the objects spread out and the more difficult it is to find them, which is step one. then step two is to track them back to the site of the presumed crash. so we have a great coverage globally. that's the way which is essentially founded by noaa. what we have here, you can see west of australia we have -- the way we contribute to the operation is bee providing real time data of atmospheric pressure and then ocean currents that can be used to validate the models. >> so that the buoy we saw you drop at the top of the show, is that feeding information back to that computer now? >> it's feeding information in real time to anyone who is capable of assimilating the data. so all the weather centers, all t

joining me captain chris curl on board the research ship melville.also joining me is luca santorini of the scrips oceanographic institute. captain explain in your experience the difficulty of these waters and a search this size. >> well, the difficulty in general is connected with how objects disperse in the water. so the the more time goes by, the more the objects spread out and the more difficult it is to find them, which is step one. then step two is to track them back to the site of the presumed crash. so we have a great coverage globally. that's the way which is essentially founded by noaa. what we have here, you can see west of australia we have -- the way we contribute to the operation is bee providing real time data of atmospheric pressure and then ocean currents that can be used to validate the models. >> so that the buoy we saw you drop at the top of the show, is that feeding information back to that computer now? >> it's feeding information in real time to anyone who is capable of assimilating the data. so all the weather centers, all the