The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts by Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts

Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson

256 pages • first pub 1821 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm wh...

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