Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex PDF Author: Owen Chase
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486808793
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.