Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

Author: Owen Chase

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1944529047

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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.

Stove by a Whale
Stove by a Whale

Author: Thomas Farel Heffernan

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1990-09

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780819562449

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A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.

The South Sea Whaler
The South Sea Whaler

Author: Honore Forster

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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This exhaustive bibliography is indispensable for scholars and students of whaling history. It includes published diaries, autobiographies, narratives, scholarly works, adult and juvenile fiction, dissertations, and newspaper and periodical articles pertaining to whaling in the Pacific. Its full appendixes and indexes for islands, vessels, and captains make it a researcher's dream.