Author: Owen Chase
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1944529047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.
Author: Owen Chase
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Category : Essex (Whale-ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Author: Owen Chase
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Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Author: Owen Chase
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Languages : en
Pages : 141
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The original account of the whaleship attacked by a whale off the Pacific coast of South America which inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.
Author: Thomas Farel Heffernan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Author: Paul Gerhard Buchloh
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Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Honore Forster
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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This exhaustive bibliography is indispensable for scholars and students of whaling history. It includes published diaries, autobiographies, narratives, scholarly works, adult and juvenile fiction, dissertations, and newspaper and periodical articles pertaining to whaling in the Pacific. Its full appendixes and indexes for islands, vessels, and captains make it a researcher's dream.
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
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