Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Joseph Vernet, Hubert Robert and Francisco Goya. A stowaway on a whaler survives mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism and a black-and-white island in the far south, and the narrative breaks off 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. Fifty-seven plates of harbours, moonlight and stormy seas by Canaletto, Vernet and their contemporaries carry the tale's long voyage south.