And so it proves to be: Moby-Dick destroys the Pequod and all its crew save Ishmael.
Other works:
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847), Mardi (1849), Redburn, His First Voyage (1849), White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850), Pierre: or the Ambiguities (1852), Israel Potter (1855), The Piazza Tales (1856), The Confidence Man (1857), Battle-Pieces and the Aspects of War (1866), Clarel (1876), Billy Budd, Foretopman (1924).