J. N. Reynolds

J. N. Reynolds[a] (fall 1799 – August 25, 1858), was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and writer who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow Earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), and Reynolds' 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific, influenced Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).

Mocha Dick, The White Whale of the Pacific, by Jeremiah N. Reynolds, 1932 cover, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Illustrations by Lowell LeRoy Balcom.
  1. ^ Sachs, Aaron (2007). The Humboldt Current: A European Explorer and His American Disciples. Oxford University Press. pp. 382–383. ISBN 978-0199215195.


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