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Also by Nathaniel Philbrick:

Travels with George, June 2022
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Why Read Moby-Dick?, November 2011
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In the Heart of the Sea, May 2001
Paperback

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
By: Nathaniel Philbrick

The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Penguin
May 2001
On Sale: May 1, 2001
320 pages
ISBN: 0141001828
EAN: 9780141001821
Paperback
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

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All Things Considered - December 2, 2011