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Jeremiah N. Reynolds

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American explorer

United StatesHistorical FiguresLived 1799 to 1858 · aged 59
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J. N. Reynolds, was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and writer who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions.

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Edgar Allan Poe was influenced by "Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas" (1836).Edgar Allan Poe was influenced by "Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas" (1836).The Southern Literary Messenger, February, 1837, containing the second installment of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.The Southern Literary Messenger, February, 1837, containing the second installment of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.

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J. N. Reynolds, was an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and writer who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. His lectures on the possibility of a hollow Earth appear to have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), and Reynolds' 1839 account of the whale Mocha Dick, Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific, influenced Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).

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United States
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Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
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deceased
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Lived 1799 to 1858 · aged 59
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7 languages

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