In the Heart of the Sea Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1.67, referenced throughout)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2.21)
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (3.39)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (12.52)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (13.54, referenced throughout)
• John Greenleaf Whittier (14.42)
• Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (14.46)

Historical References

• Ichabod Paddock (1.15)
• Edmund Burke (1.19)
• Mary Coffin Starbuck (1.23)
• Peleg Folger (1.25)
• Lucretia Coffin Mott (1.51)
• John D. Rockefeller (1.67)
• William Comstock (1.68, referenced throughout)
• Richard Henry Dana Jr. (2.30, referenced throughout)
• Benjamin Franklin (2.46)
• David Porter (4.2, referenced throughout)
• Thomas Cochrane, aka Lord Cochrane (4.7)
• George Washington Gardner (4.18)
• James Colnett (4.30)
• Charles Darwin (4.30)
• Christopher Columbus (5.1)
• Nathaniel Bowditch (5.36)
• Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (6.15)
• Théodore Géricault (8.2)
• Matthew Fontaine Maury (8.26)
• Ancel Keys (10.29)
• Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (11.17)
• Frederick Douglass (14.43)
• Samuel Comstock (14.44)