In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex /

In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west,...

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Main Author:	Philbrick, Nathaniel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2000.
Subjects:	Essex (Whaleship) Shipwrecks > Pacific Ocean. Survival. Essex (Whale-ship.) Naufrages > Pacifique, Océan. Shipwrecks. Pacific Ocean. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. Whaling. True adventure stories. Récits d'aventures.