they see it by -- >> undersold moby dick. >> it was published about four years after moby dick. moby dick was a commercial and critical failure. this was the moment they're really identify m is emotionally and physically exhausted. a little bit. and he published it in a journal , a publication here in new york. came out in three segments, october, november, december december 1855. there were notices of it in the times. cut quickly into obscurity like much of his other writing until the 1920's. >> and when you went about reconstructing is, he said you came across this mind blowing footnote. you went all over vermont his debut were finding -- >> what i find culminating is held intensive documented all this is. all the captains were riding correspondents about surviving the terrible conditions, but recalculations and turnings lives in the commodities, protecting them and trading them off. all of that is on paper and preserved. >> how were you able to reconstruct this exact shipment on this unbelievable odyssey across the ocean and then up over the mountain? >> doing this kind of ar

they see it by -- >> undersold moby dick. >> it was published about four years after moby dick. moby dick was a commercial and critical failure. this was the moment they're really identify m is emotionally and physically exhausted. a little bit. and he published it in a journal , a publication here in new york. came out in three segments, october, november, december december 1855. there were notices of it in the times. cut quickly into obscurity like much of his other writing until the 1920's. >> and when you went about reconstructing is, he said you came across this mind blowing footnote. you went all over vermont his debut were finding -- >> what i find culminating is held intensive documented all this is. all the captains were riding correspondents about surviving the terrible conditions, but recalculations and turnings lives in the commodities, protecting them and trading them off. all of that is on paper and preserved. >> how were you able to reconstruct this exact shipment on this unbelievable odyssey across the ocean and then up over the mountain? >> doing this kind of ar

. >> undersold "moby dick". >> it was published 40 years after "moby dick" and "moby dick" was it commercialilure and disaster. this was the moment biographers identified him as a point of the emotional and physical exhaustion. he published it in putnam's monthly journal came out in three segments in december of 1855. there were notices of it in the time. reading it as a creeping horror but it went quickly and too obscure de. >> when you went about reconstructing and in this mind-blowing footnote 1 you went all over the map that the story covers. what i find amazing is how intensely documented all of this is. it all the captains were writing correspondence describing the crude calculations of protecting slaves and trading them off. all of that is on paper and preserved. how were you able to reconstruct this exact shipment on its unbelievable odyssey across the ocean and up over the mountains through the andes? >> doing this kind of archival research, when you're trying to reconstruct it at least provides some kind of structure and organizing structure that moves you along. if one were to go

coral melville sent his book "moby dick" published first in written and the community at the love. you weep this book and everybody dies at the end. if you don't have the epilogue you don't know that ishmael survived. so people with melville were terrible. this book doesn't make any sense. it just doesn't make any sense. in addition to violating the copyrights of literary work american newspapers with pickup the overviews. so even though these american publishers published "moby dick," including the epilogue which explains it and certainly makes the book makes sense. melville is the subject of having these provisions and people at the time never found not both. the international situation with copyrights is a disaster. so here comes onto the scene yet another one of her 19th century bases. it is not tenable that the copyrights to writings do not cross borders. books cross borders. they are sent name to the convention with that in 1886. victor hugo was one of the major forces behind the international treaty and it is the basic agreement, over simply stated but whatever you do for a

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and poor old melville sent his, sent "moby dick" to be published first in britain. the british publisher didn't include the epilogue. so you read this book about everybody who dies at the end, okay? and if you don't have the epilogue, you don't know that ishmael survives. so people, you know, the reviews of melville were terrible. it was like this book doesn't make any sense, how could everybody die, but i am -- call me ishmael, it just doesn't make any sense. well, in addition to, you know, violating the copyrights of literary works, people like dickens, american newspapers would pick up british book reviews. so even though the american publisher published the whole "moby dick," including the epilogue which explains everything sort of -- well, it certainly makes the book make sense. poor old melville was the summit of having these british -- subject of have these british reviews reprinted, and people of the time never found that book, okay? so this is, the international situation with copyrights was a disaster. so here comes onto the scene yet another one of our 19

. >> the duty of a captain in this circumstance goes way back past moby dick back to the medieval seaago. this is a particularly sad case. you have to look after the passengers, its your obligation. you can't abandon a ship. to see this happening in this circumstance, reflects, i think, poorly, on this -- not only this captain, i mean, he's got his hoodie on, looking downing, he's disgraces. the issues are broader and deeper than just pointing the finger at one person. you've got to look at the ferry company itself. the marine company, their training, their safety culture? were there lifeboat drills? muster drills? were these children sent to the muster stations before the ship? >> cnn's alexandra field joins me with more. what other allegations is this capital facing? >> reporter: a slew of them, fred. abandoning ship, negligence, causing bodily injury, failure to seek rec keys from our boats, all charles the captain in south korea is facing. shocking, that the captain would leave the boat with so many still trapped onboard and it isn't the first time we've seen something like this h

. >> yeah, the duty of a captain in this circumstance goes way back past moby dick, back to the lawsy a thousand years ago. this is a particularly sad case. it's not just sad and tragic for the parents, but many, many years ago i was a history student at duke. and you would think that the industry could learn a basic lesson. there are basic lessons from the costa concordia. you have to look after the passenger. it's your obligation. you can't abandon ship. and to see this happening in this circumstance reflects, i think, poorly on this -- not only this captain -- i mean, he has his hoodie on, looking down, he's disgraced. but the issues are broader and deeper than just pointing the finger at one person. you have to look at the ferry company itself, the marine company, what was their training, what was their safety culture, were there lifeboat drills, were there muster drills? were these children -- >> and that's generally what happened -- that generally would happen before a ship were to set sail, right? >> right. >> some kind of drill, so everyone knows what to do. the captain said