The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale Book Reviews

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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale by Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, Thomas Philbrick & Nathaniel Philbrick Book Summary

The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
 
In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic. 
 
This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau.

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The The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale book written by Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, Thomas Philbrick & Nathaniel Philbrick was published on 01 May 2000, Monday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 186 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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