In the Heart of the Sea: The Incredible True Story that Inspired Moby-Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea: The Incredible True Story that Inspired Moby-Dick

Nathaniel Philbrick

302 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative sad slow-paced
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When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 1819, the unthinkable happened. A mere speck in the vast Pacific ocean – and powerless against the forces of nature – Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale, and her twenty crewmen w...

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