"Herman Melville: Stargazer is an important and exciting work. The scholarship is excellent. I cannot stress too much how valuable it is to scholars to have Melville's astronomical references compiled and explicated and to be made aware that stars and constellations had certain resonances in nineteenth-century science and navigation. The book fills a significant gap in our understanding of Melville's intellectual climate." Bryan C. Short, Department of English, Northern Arizona University
"A well-researched, well-written, convincingly argued, informative, thoughtful, necessary, long overdue, superb Melville study. Zimmerman is treating, and treating in an illuminating fashion, an important aspect of Melville's work that has received no real attention." David Ketterer, Department of English, Concordia University

"Herman Melville: Stargazer is an important and exciting work. The scholarship is excellent. I cannot stress too much how valuable it is to scholars to have Melville's astronomical references compiled and explicated and to be made aware that stars and constellations had certain resonances in nineteenth-century science and navigation. The book fills a significant gap in our understanding of Melville's intellectual climate." Bryan C. Short, Department of English, Northern Arizona University "A well-researched, well-written, convincingly argued, informative, thoughtful, necessary, long overdue, superb Melville study. Zimmerman is treating, and treating in an illuminating fashion, an important aspect of Melville's work that has received no real attention." David Ketterer, Department of English, Concordia University