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Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea

The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

Penguin Group USA

USA

2001

Reissue

Paperback

302

Standard

277352

978-0-14-100182-1

0-14-100182-8

Shipwrecks; Pacific Ocean.

Annotation

In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the 20-man crew set out in three small boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive. This book shares a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of the whaling tradition, with deep resonance in literature and American history, and in the life of the Nantucket community.

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