Edgar Allan Poe The Adventures of Gordon Pym

“I felt my knees shaking hard, my fingers gradually weakening on the grip. Something buzzed in my ears and I thought: ‘Here comes the chill of death!'” Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on the whaling ship “Grampus” and finds himself living through a series of misadventures at sea. After surviving a shipwreck, he is rescued by the crew of the ship “Jane Guy,” with whom he sets course for the South Pole in search of uncharted lands.