Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whaleship Essex /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Lyons Press,
1999.
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| Edition: | 1st Lyons Press ed. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published: Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket. New York : W.B. Gilley, 1821. |
| Physical Description: | 141 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 1558218785 9781558218789 |