In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
ISBN: 9780141001821 | 0141001828
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Pub. Date: 5/1/2001
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including ... MORE
| Preface February 23, 1821 | xi | ||||
| Crew of the Essex | xvii | ||||
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| Epilogue Bones | 230 | (9) | |||
| Notes | 239 | (40) | |||
| Select Bibliography | 279 | (12) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 291 | (4) | |||
| Index | 295 |
Nathaniel Philbrick director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association
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