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''The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers'' is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two 
sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include:
Seal hunting
* Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
* Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 18 ...
stranded in the Antarctic ice. The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend
Henry Oscar Houghton (; April 30, 1823 – August 25, 1895) was an American publisher, co-founder of Houghton Mifflin, and a mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Biography
Houghton was born into a poor family in Sutton, Vermont. At age thirteen, h ...
. Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes
Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842).
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he commanded ' during the ...
's ''Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842''.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville ( born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); ''Typee'' (1846), a rom ...
reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine '' The Literary World''. Melville's praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, "Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea Lions; and even those who more for fashion’s sake than anything else, have of late joined in decrying our national novelist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest."
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* Novels by James Fenimore Cooper 1849 American novels Nautical novels Antarctica in fiction {{1840s-novel-stub