Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Charles Leickert and Camille Pissarro. A stowaway on a whaler survives mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism and a black-and-white island in the far south, and the narrative stops mid-sentence in front of a white figure. Poe's only novel, published as a true account, and the reason it has haunted writers from Verne to Lovecraft is that he never explains the ending. Ninety-nine plates, from Bellotto's winter landscapes to Ethel Morgan's Shakespeare scenes, run alongside the voyage as a visual counterpoint to Poe's frozen, unending south.