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 whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale.The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long...
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick s monumen...
On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and thousands of miles from any known land, the sailors began their terrifying journey of survival. Ninety days later, after much suffering and death by starvation, intense heat, and dehydration, only eight men survived to reach land. One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose...
On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her cr...
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is the story of a whale ship that was attached by a sperm whale, and the inspiration for 'Moby Dick'.
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is the story of a whale ship that was attached by a sperm whale,...
