Format:
Book
Author:
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
Title:
In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin, 2001, c2000.
Description:
xvi, 302 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
The incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex, the inspiration for Melville's great classic, Moby Dick. In 1820, the Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats.
Subjects:
Essex (Whaleship)
Sperm whale.
Sperm whale hunting.
Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean.
Shipwreck survival -- Pacific Ocean.
Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean -- History -- 19th century.
Whaling ships -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket -- History -- 19th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.
ISBN:
0141001828 (pbk.)
Other Number:
46949818
System Availability:
19
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
2952441
Call Number:
910.916
Course Reserves:
0
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19