In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Record details
- ISBN: 0606365745
- ISBN: 9780606365741
- ISBN: 9780141001821
- ISBN: 0141001828
- ISBN: 9780670891573
- ISBN: 0670891576
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Physical Description:
xvi, 302 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2000.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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--Dust jacket. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award for Non-fiction, 2000 |
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Subject: | Shipwrecks Pacific Ocean History Pacific Ocean Essex Whaleship nonfiction history Shipwrecks Pacific Ocean Essex (Whaleship) |
Genre: | True adventure stories. |
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