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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: In the heart of the sea
    sub title: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
  title info:
    title: Revenge of the whale
  name:
    name part: Philbrick, Nathaniel.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: True adventure stories.
  genre: Récits d'aventures.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Viking
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease and fear. ... This is a timeless account of the human spirit under extreme duress, but it is also a story about a community and about the kind of men and women who lived in a forbidding, remote island like Nantucket. -- Dust jacket.
  table of contents: Preface: February 23, 1821 -- Nantucket -- Knockdown -- First blood -- The lees of fire -- The attack -- The plan -- At sea -- Centering down -- The island -- The whisper of necessity -- Games of chance -- In the eagle's shadow -- Homecoming -- Consequences -- Epilogue: Bones.
  note: by Nathaniel Philbrick.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
  note: National Book Award for Non-fiction, 2000
  note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.8 14.0 45207.
  note: Reading Counts RC High School 11 18 Quiz: 31543 Guided reading level: NR.
  subject:
    geographic code: p------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Essex (Whaleship)
  subject:
    topic: Shipwrecks
    geographic: Pacific Ocean
  subject:
    topic: Survival
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Essex (Whale-ship.)
  subject:
    topic: Naufrages
    geographic: Pacifique, Océan
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Essex (Whaleship)
  subject:
    topic: Shipwrecks
  subject:
    geographic: Pacific Ocean
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Essex (Whaleship)
  subject:
    topic: Shipwrecks
  subject:
    topic: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
  subject:
    topic: Whaling
  classification: G530.E77 P45 2000
  classification: 910/.9164
  classification: 910.9164 Philbrick
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 991020
    record change date: 20250206151442.0
    record identifier: in00004807920
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng