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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

Philbrick, Nathaniel

Paperback

Boating19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0141001828
ISBN13: 9780141001821
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: May 1 2001
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook)
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.

Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.

In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea, recently adapted into a major feature film starring Chris Hemsworth, is a book for the ages.

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