Chapter 1: Antarctic Exploration and American Nationalism Chapter 2: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction and the Antarctic Chapter 3: The Poetics of the Antarctic: James Croxall Palmer's Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843) Chapter 4: The Fictive Imagination and the Antarctic Chapter 5: Antarctic Redux: Palmer's Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), Conclusion, Appendix: Text of Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868)